WASPization

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noun

The process of making or becoming more WASPy.

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Meanings

nounWASPization (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe process of making or becoming more WASPy.

    And the prospect of genteel notoriety for their unborn heirs is the source of the Mob's drive for WASPization.

    1971, Chicago Journalism Review, volume 4, page 14
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    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.

    1992, Edwin Jayadas, “Tribals in Our Global Village: Agenda for the Third Millennium”, in Pan Media, page 41

    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).

    1997 June 6, blaine, “Re: Saleem's signoff”, in talk.politics.mideast (Usenet)

Origin

From WASP + -ization.

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