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fetishize
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fet·ish·ize  (ft-shz)
tr.v. fet·ish·ized, fet·ish·iz·ing, fet·ish·iz·es
To make a fetish of: "The American public schools . . . have in the space of a few years gone from neglecting computers to fetishizing them" (James Traub).
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Verb1.fetishize - make a fetish of
adore - love intensely; "he just adored his wife"


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The frenzy of socialist fetishization began with Wolfgang Becker's popular film Good Bye Lenin
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While the increasing fetishization of the male body appears to have initiated men into a struggle with body image similar to what women have long experienced, there are, of course, differences associated with the different constructions of gender.
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Apart from their fetishization of Western values, both Naipaul and Huntington share two striking attitudes: both reveal a suspicion, if not a hostile dislike, of other cultures and an uncanny tendency towards grand generalizations about the nature and values of these "other" cultures that Huntington and Naipaul have essentially constructed and attributed whatever they fantasized to them.
Naipaul's travelogues and the "clash of civilizations" complex by Malak, Amin / Cross Currents
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