brazilianisation

plural brazilianisations

1. countableuncountableAlternative letter-case form of Brazilianization.

   Invoking the examples of Japan and the United States, he weighs the dangers of economic dualism and the creeping 'brazilianisation' of job markets.

   1986, Socialist Affairs - Issue 2, page 48

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   In his eagerness to show how erroneous the Brazilian modernists were, Holston fails to discuss the desire for modernisation among the Brazilian people. Even if the people demand "brazilianisation", such a process might include elements of modernisation.

   2001, Post proceedings of the World Conference on Cultural Design/Digital Condition Design, →ISBN

   Due to the early 1990s crisis, but also to the transition from a work society to a knowledge society, the increasing unemployment rate and the growing incidence of part-time, flexible and 'precarious' employment in westem countries have been documented and described as a 'brazilianisation of the west' (Beck, 2000).

   2005 -, SEER South-east Europe Review for Labour and Social Affairs

   They talked about brazilianisation by infection, of Brazil as an immense hospital, and these ideas percolated into literature, reinforced, perhaps, by the memory of those flu-themed parades in the 1919 Rio Carnival, when groups calling themselves 'Midnight Tea' and 'Holy House' sang bawdy songs about a 'Spanish lady'.

   2017, Laura Spinney, Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World

plural Brazilianisations

1. Alternative spelling of Brazilianization.
   1. countableuncountableAn increased percentage of Brazilian people or culture.

      The President-elect's very strong sense of nationalism and his all-pervading idea of Brazilianisation alone would insist that any political system established in Brazil must conform to Brazilian realities.

      1950, Charles Dunlop, The South American Journal - Volumes 147-148, page 193

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      The whole effort is at present directed to nothing more than the prevention of the Brazilianisation of the Germans in Brazil. It is all quite natural ; but it is also quite natural that the Brazilian Government, which has to look on at this systematic effort to prevent a large portion of its subjects from feeling themselves to be first and foremost- Brazilians, should entertain ' suspicions.'

      1908, William Thomas Arnold -, German Ambitions as They Affect Britain and the United States of America

      Thereafter, the process of 'Brazilianisation' went ahead, marked by curiously similar phases of autochthonous adaptation and recreation, and each time there was a reaffirmation of that simple gracefulness and delicate sensualism which became eventually the distinctive characteristic of the country's best architecture.

      1976, Art and Artists - Volume 11, page 36

   2. countableuncountableA social change toward economic disparity.

      National governments can try to resist Brazilianisation by regulating their labour markets and closing their borders, but the most likely end result in today's global conditions is economic stagnation or even decline.

      2008, Ken Roberts, Youth in Transition: In Eastern Europe and the West, →ISBN, page 210

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      In Chapter 5 the narrative and analysis shift to the global South, that part of the globe once known as the Third World. This is the main site of "informalisation' (or Brazilianisation) whereby 'non-standard' forms of employment become prevalent.

      2002, Ronaldo Munck, Globalization and Labour: The New 'Great Transformation', →ISBN, page xii

      The ramifications of Brazilianisation are countless: In the USA, according to some observers, Latinisation and the diminishing relevance of the old communitarian model will make social reality similar to that of Brazil.

      2014, Johannes Fiedler, Urbanisation, unlimited: A Thematic Journey, →ISBN, page 18