Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Gharbzadegi (Persian: غربزدگی) is a pejorative Persian term variously translated as "Westoxification," "West-struck-ness" "Westitis", "Euromania", or "Occidentosis". It is used to refer to the loss of Iranian cultural identity through the adoption and imitation of Western models and Western criteria in education, the arts, and culture; through the transformation of Iran into a passive market for Western goods and a pawn in Western geopolitics.[citation needed]The phrase was first coined by Ahmad Fardid (University of Tehran Professor) in the 1940s[citation needed], it gained common usage following the clandestine publication in 1962 of the book Occidentosis: A Plague from the West by Jalal Al-e Ahmad, an eminent Iranian writer.. }
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- Gharbzadegi abstract "Gharbzadegi (Persian: غربزدگی) is a pejorative Persian term variously translated as "Westoxification," "West-struck-ness" "Westitis", "Euromania", or "Occidentosis". It is used to refer to the loss of Iranian cultural identity through the adoption and imitation of Western models and Western criteria in education, the arts, and culture; through the transformation of Iran into a passive market for Western goods and a pawn in Western geopolitics.[citation needed]The phrase was first coined by Ahmad Fardid (University of Tehran Professor) in the 1940s[citation needed], it gained common usage following the clandestine publication in 1962 of the book Occidentosis: A Plague from the West by Jalal Al-e Ahmad, an eminent Iranian writer.".