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Americanisation

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Noun1.Americanisation - assimilation into American culture
assimilation, absorption - the social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another


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His portrait of working-class community and culture in a Northern English city, and their erosion by commercialisation and Americanisation, was influential for many social historians of Britain.
What we're seeing in health is symptomatic of the insidious Americanisation of Australian society: dog-eat-dog industrial relations laws, American minimum wages, American university fees and now a two-tiered, user-pays, star-spangled health system.
He shows the perennial attraction of the seaside in cultural artefacts from children's books to film, yet does not mention it as a theme in popular song; and the Americanisation of popular culture, which had its echoes in the resorts, not least in the introduction of their amusement arcades, gets scant attention.
 
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