normalize, verb transitive
- Origin:
- EnglishShow more Special sense of general English.
To desegregate and remove racial bias (from any activity, but particularly sport).
- Note:
- First used with reference to government moves, in 1976, to desegregate sport at certain levels but not others. These moves were widely criticized as superficial, and simply an attempt to effect a return to international sport.
1976 D. Dalling in Daily Dispatch 25 Sept. 11It’s a giant step for the National Party, but a small step towards normalising sport.
1988 B. Kgantsi in Frontline Apr.–May 31‘We have normalised golf in our country’, said one PGA official.
To desegregate and remove racial bias (from any activity, but particularly sport).
- Derivatives:
- Hence normal adjective, desegregated and free of racial bias; normality noun; normalization noun; normalized participial adjective; normalizing verbal noun.1989 Reader’s Digest Illust. Hist. of S. Afr. 450Despite the legal requirements of the Group Areas Act, mixed teams received government blessing. However, this so-called ‘normalisation’ did nothing to take the sting out of the international boycott — simply because apartheid remained in force...‘No normal sport in an abnormal society’ became the clarion call of the South African Council on Sport.
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