westernise

1. They have overcome the impulse – and this is something where the Chinese need to catch up – to westernise radically as a necessity of modernisation.
   他们克服了实现现代化就必须全盘西化的冲动&这正是中国人需要学习的。

verb

1. make western in character
   1. The country was Westernized after it opened up

   Synonym:    occidentalizeoccidentalisewesternize