Filipinization

plural Filipinizations · alternative UK Filipinisation

1. countableuncountableA 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

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   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

   “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.

   2007, David Koh Wee Hock, Legacies of World War II in South and East Asia, →ISBN, page 88

   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.

   2016, Bi-qi Beatrice Lei, Judy Celine Ick, Poonam Trivedi, Shakespeare’s Asian Journeys, →ISBN

2. countableuncountableConversion to a form that reflects Filipino cultural influences; The spread of Philippine influence around the world.

   Filipinization results from Philippine diaspora diplomacy in global cities.

   2018, Mark R. Thompson, Eric Vincent C. Batalla, Routledge Handbook of the Contemporary Philippines, →ISBN

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   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

   Infusing their own brand of Catholicism in Canada or elsewhere has brought the so-called Filipinization of Christianity in North America (Gonzalez III 2002).

   2010, Glenda Tibe Bonifacio, Vivienne S. M. Angeles, Gender, Religion, and Migration: Pathways of Integration, →ISBN, page 265

3. countableuncountableTagalization