Afrikanerize, verb transitive

/ˌafrɪˈkɑːnəraɪz/
Forms:
Formerly also Afrikanderize.
Origin:
EnglishShow more Afrikaner noun sense 2 a + English verb-forming suffix -ize.
To assimilate (someone) into the Afrikaner community; to bring (something) under the control or administration of Afrikaner people; to make (language) more Afrikaans, in form or pronunciation.
1905 Lord A. Milner in C. Headlam Milner Papers (1933) II. 552A separate Afrikander nation and State, comprising, no doubt, men of other races, who are ready to be ‘afrikanderized’.
1955 Saron & Hotz Jews in S. Afr. 207Of those who fought on the Boer side, some were Jewish burghers who had become thoroughly Afrikanerized.
1960 20th Century July 63The Nationalists sought to Afrikanerize the white trades unions.
1977 Sunday Times 29 May (Mag. Sect.) 4Similarly, coloured schools have been systematically ‘Afrikanerised’, so that today 60 per cent of the people who speak Afrikaans in this country are non-white.
1981 E. Prov. Herald 23 Apr. 2It was decided that English-speakers needed to be ‘Afrikanerised.’
1989 Sunday Times 29 Oct. 28Not even Afrikaners married to English-speaking wives are allowed membership unless she has been ‘Afrikanerised’.
To assimilate (someone) into the Afrikaner community; to bring (something) under the control or administration of Afrikaner people; to make (language) more Afrikaans, in form or pronunciation.
Derivatives:
Hence Afrikanerization  noun; Afrikanerizing  verbal noun; also attributive.
1947 Forum 5 Apr. 5The Afrikanerizing of the cities..had gone ahead by leaps and bounds.
1952 E.H. Burrows Overberg Outspan 190The afrikanerizing influence she exerted on her husband.
1952 B. Davidson Report on Sn Afr. 158The ‘Afrikanerization’ of public life and education ‘in the Christian National sense’.
1970 Sunday Times 22 Mar.There is a very real danger of a greater Afrikanerisation of our youth, which will mean that the heritage and culture of the English-speaking section will be lessened and diluted.
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