brazilianization

Noun capitalized: Brazilianization

Brazilianization (countable and uncountable, plural Brazilianizations)

1. An increase in the percentage of Brazilian people or cultural elements in an area or industry.
   • As chief of Interventor Cordeiro de Farias' personal military staff. Peracchi had been active in the local implementation of the Estado Novo's Brazilianization campaign, in which excesses had occurred against Germans and Italians.1974, Carlos E. Cortés, Gaúcho politics in Brazil: the politics of Rio Grande do Sul, 1930-1964, page 163
   • Given this context of religious pluralism, the main theme and purpose of this chapter is to discuss the process of Brazilianization caused by the increasingly significant presence of Brazilian immigrants and their evangelical churches in the New Your Metropolitan Area (Rodrigues 2010).2012, Richard Cimino, Nadia A Mian, Weishan Huang, Ecologies of Faith in New York City, →ISBN
2. Social change characterized by classism, economic disparity, and a large underclass that suffers from unemployment and underemployment.
   • What is going on in my opinion is the "Brazilianization of India". You have high levels of inequality, a spectacular film and culture industry, the proliferation of television, and for the first time in the history of India, you have the legitimization of inequality among the elite.2004, Geert Lovink, Uncanny Networks: Dialogues with the Virtual Intelligentsia, →ISBN
   • Neo-liberal globalization has created a great disruption of previously stable employment patterns, (re)introducing temporary, insecure, and "informal" employment in the North and even social marginality in the great cities. Brazilianization, over and beyond the slightly pejorative and Eurocentric...2005, Ronaldo Munck, Globalization and Social Exclusion: A Transformationalist Perspective, →ISBN