alter, change, modify - cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue"
Modernization came to be synonymous with Occidentalization. Using Gilberto Freyre's work as a case study, the authors highlight his tracing of both patriarchal authoritarianism and sexual-racial flexibility in relation to Brazil's Moorish lineage, as well as his recuperation of the Sephardi for the national formation of Brazil's economy, science, and culture.
In poetically envisioning his own sacrifice, De Quincey substitutes the real history of Wordsworth's reimagined scene, a history that archeologists and geologists were beginning to reconstruct and document, with a different form of Occidentalization. If the dreams were mere fancy they would represent cultural fantasy, but instead they touch on Jungian archetypes that suggest a connection at a deeper, more powerful, and yet also more creative level.
(74) However, a hidden irony lies in this instance of imposed "Occidentalization"; namely, the very element of universalism inscribed into its texture.