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occidentosis

noun

Etymology

From occident (“west”) + -osis; calque of Iranian Persian غربزدگی (ġarb-zadegi).

  1. calqued from غربزدگی

Definitions

  1. An increase in social inequality that occurs when the widespread adoption of Western…

    An increase in social inequality that occurs when the widespread adoption of Western technology results in job losses and factory owners gaining wealth.

    • When a factory rapidly producing cloth opened in the village, many people lost their jobs from the resulting occidentosis.
    • To follow the West—the Western states and the oil companies—is the supreme manifestation of occidentosis in our time.
    • Occidentosis epitomises the idea that there is a “Western sickness” from which the Third World must rise to detox and strive to cleanse itself.

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