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WASPization

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Etymology

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From WASP +‎ -ization.

Noun

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WASPization (uncountable)

  1. The process of making or becoming more WASPy.
    • 1971, Chicago Journalism Review, volume 4, page 14:
      And the prospect of genteel notoriety for their unborn heirs is the source of the Mob's drive for WASPization.
    • 1992, Edwin Jayadas, “Tribals in Our Global Village: Agenda for the Third Millennium”, in Pan Media, page 41:
      What is hastening the decay of Hinduism however it[sic] its "WASPization." The rich diversity of tradition is sought to be replaced by an orthodoxy and a single monolithic accepted canon.
    • 1997 June 6, blaine, “Re: Saleem's signoff”, in talk.politics.mideast[1] (Usenet):
      That was the original intent of the American "melting pot", IIRC - to produce a new, common culture. The goal was not WASPization, as some conservatives believe (and wish).