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Over the decades, the media in the Philippines experienced more indigenization. In the 1970s when I lived there, many television shows from abroad were in English, although local programs were in Tagalog. A generation later, American programs, Japanese anime, and Korean dramas are all dubbed in Tagalog.
Source: tatoeba (10720802)
The legislation, which parliament is expected to approve by year's end, comes on the heels of the Indigenization and Economic Empowerment bill, which purports to give black Zimbabweans a controlling stake in domestic and foreign-owned firms.
Source: tatoeba (12007423)
An early attempt at what might now be called indigenization occurred in one of the first forts which the Portuguese built on the West African coast, Fort St George of Elmina, in what is now Ghana.
Source: wiktionary
[A] reverse process of what we might call indigenisation also occurred, in which the freed convicts and their families and their descendants took on some of the values and mentality of Aboriginal people.
Source: wiktionary
Closest matches include adaptation, decolonization, decolonizing, empowerment, incorporation.
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