#americanizat

• Americanization — The act of americanizing and its result; a social, economic, and cultural process of wide-scale assimilation or adoption of the values, customs, language, political doctrine, and lifestyle characteristic of the United States of America. This global structural phenomenon is closely linked to the expansion of mass media, multinational brands, and US technology, often generating debates regarding the loss of local cultural identity.
• Americanized — Having undergone the process of americanization; a person, community, institution, language, or commercial brand that has adopted the characteristics, mentalities, customs, or lifestyle specific to the United States of America. In a structural sense, it describes the final state of a cultural element modified under the influence of transatlantic economic and social models.