Meaning of Filipinization | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A nationalist movement and policy of local control in the Philippines; a policy of embracing native Philippine culture and control.
   countable, uncountable
2. Conversion to a form that reflects Filipino cultural influences; The spread of Philippine influence around the world.
   countable, uncountable
3. Tagalization
   countable, uncountable

Examples

“The Dominican missionaries in the Philippines were not blind to the Filipinization movements gripping every sector of the society.”

“Filipinization echoed the liberal policy adopted by the Democrat U.S. administration, headed by President Woodrow Wilson, from 1913 to 1921.”

““Asia for the Asians” can be said to have taken a religious turn in the post-war period with the campaign for the Filipinization of the religious orders instigated in mid-1957 by rebel priests Fr Ambrosio Manaligod of the Society of the Divine Word (SVD) and the Jesuit Hilario Lim.”

“The most plausible answer is the onslaught of Filipinization that swept the country at this time, smoldering in the mid-1960s, flaring in the 1970s, and then set ablaze in the eighties to weaken the colonial apparatus in the larger society.”

“The dance was imitated by the natives, often with the introduction of some comical Filipinizations amid laughter and merry-making in the barrios.”

“Essentially, this mass movement of people and culture from the Philippines constitutes a form of reverse colonization, where American political, social, and economic institutions and spaces experience varying degrees of Filipinization.”

“Infusing their own brand of Catholicism in Canada or elsewhere has brought the so-called Filipinization of Christianity in North America (Gonzalez III 2002).”

“Filipinization results from Philippine diaspora diplomacy in global cities.”

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