Filipinization

English

Etymology

From Filipino +‎ -ization.

Noun

Filipinization (countable and uncountable, plural Filipinizations)

A nationalist movement and policy of local control in the Philippines; a policy of embracing native Philippine culture and control.
- 1990, Rolando V. De la Rosa, Beginnings of the Filipino Dominicans, →ISBN:
  The Dominican missionaries in the Philippines were not blind to the Filipinization movements gripping every sector of the society.
- 2004, Keat Gin Ooi, Southeast Asia: A Historical Encyclopedia, from Angkor Wat to East Timor, →ISBN:
  Filipinization echoed the liberal policy adopted by the Democrat U.S. administration, headed by President Woodrow Wilson, from 1913 to 1921.
- 2007, David Koh Wee Hock, Legacies of World War II in South and East Asia, →ISBN, page 88:
  “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.
- 2016, Bi-qi Beatrice Lei, Judy Celine Ick, Poonam Trivedi, Shakespeare’s Asian Journeys, →ISBN:
  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.
Conversion to a form that reflects Filipino cultural influences; The spread of Philippine influence around the world.
- 1971, Elizabeth Durack, Seeing through the Philippines, page 64:
  The dance was imitated by the natives, often with the introduction of some comical Filipinizations amid laughter and merry-making in the barrios.
- 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:
  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.
- 2010, Glenda Tibe Bonifacio, Vivienne S. M. Angeles, Gender, Religion, and Migration: Pathways of Integration, →ISBN, page 265:
  Infusing their own brand of Catholicism in Canada or elsewhere has brought the so-called Filipinization of Christianity in North America (Gonzalez III 2002).
- 2018, Mark R. Thompson, Eric Vincent C. Batalla, Routledge Handbook of the Contemporary Philippines, →ISBN:
  Filipinization results from Philippine diaspora diplomacy in global cities.
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