Filipinization

Noun

1. A 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:
   • 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...
   • “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...
2. Conversion to a form that reflects Filipino cultural influences; The spread of Philippine influence around the world.
   • 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...
   • 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,...
3. Tagalization