Filipinization

Noun

Filipinization (countable and uncountable, plural Filipinizations)

1. A nationalist movement and policy of local control in the Philippines; a policy of embracing native Philippine culture and control.
   • The Dominican missionaries in the Philippines were not blind to the Filipinization movements gripping every sector of the society.1990, Rolando V. De la Rosa, Beginnings of the Filipino Dominicans, →ISBN
   • Filipinization echoed the liberal policy adopted by the Democrat U.S. administration, headed by President Woodrow Wilson, from 1913 to 1921.2004, Keat Gin Ooi, Southeast Asia: A Historical Encyclopedia, from Angkor Wat to East Timor, →ISBN
2. Conversion to a form that reflects Filipino cultural influences; The spread of Philippine influence around the world.
   • The dance was imitated by the natives, often with the introduction of some comical Filipinizations amid laughter and merry-making in the barrios.1971, Elizabeth Durack, Seeing through the Philippines, page 64
   • 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.2009, Lois Ann Lorentzen, Joaquin Jay Gonzalez, Kevin M. Chun, Hien Duc Do, Religion at the Corner of Bliss and Nirvana: Politics, Identity, and Faith in New Migrant Communities, →ISBN, page 287
3. Tagalization