WASPization

WASPization

English

Etymology

WASP +‎ -ization

Noun

WASPization (uncountable)

1. The process of making or becoming more WASPy.
   • 1971, Chicago Journalism Review, Volume 4, page 14:

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

   • 1992, Edwin Jayadas, Tribals in Our Global Village: Agenda for the Third Millennium, Pan Media (1992), page 41:

     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.

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

     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).