Meanings
present singular third person Peruvianizes · participle present Peruvianizing · participle past Peruvianized · past Peruvianized
- transitiveTo make Peruvian.
[…] have to be done is Peruvianize the industry,
1968, Translations on Latin America, page 1402 more examples
For example, while a number of the provincial indigenistas such as Luis Valcárcel proclaimed the need to Peruvianize Peru by fabricating prehispanic identities as foundations for the establishment of the modern nation and of national culture,
2002, Gareth Williams, The Other Side of the Popular: Neoliberalism and Subalternity in Latin America, Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 44Mariátegui believes that Marxism means human progress as indisputably as smallpox vaccine or the theory of relativity, but to Peruvianize Peru one has to start by Peruvianizing Marxism, which is not a catechism or the tracing of some master plan, but a key to enter deep into this country.
2014, Eduardo Galeano, The Memory of Fire Trilogy: Genesis, Faces and Masks, and Century of the Wind, Open Road Media, →ISBN
Origin
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