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creolize
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Verb1.creolize - develop into a creole; "pidgins often creolize"
change - undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night"


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Thus, from the 14th Century onwards, the growth of a hybrid Peranakan population led to a distinctive creolised culture, with syncretised languages, cuisine and clothing.
Positioning strategies of Southeast Asian Chinese entrepreneurs (1) by Wong, Tiong Chong / Journal of Contemporary Asia
Mda's creolised, playful and satirical answer to the enforcement of racial categories in the past is to fragment and muddle as many human categories as possible, thus suggesting that identity is in fact complex, unpredictable, and not as the practice of apartheid suggested, related to mere surface appearances.
De-scribing the centre: satiric and postcolonial strategies in The ... by Goodman, Ralph / Journal of Literary Studies
From the rim, empires write back: questions of belonging and nonbelonging, or migration and exile, have creolised speech and experience, and provoked Rushdie's response to Steiner who complained that literary energy was being generated not in the metropolis but on the far rim: "What does it matter .
The politics of identity: South Africa, story-telling, and literary ... by Chapman, Michael / Journal of Literary Studies
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