to alter (something) so as to make it fit in with the local culture
indigenize in American English
(inˈdɪdʒəˌnaiz)
transitive verbWord forms: -nized, -nizing
1.
to make indigenous
2.
to increase local participation in or ownership of
to indigenize foreign-owned companies
3.
to adapt (beliefs, customs, etc.) to local ways
Alsoesp Britindigenise
Derived forms
indigenization
noun
Word origin
[1950–55; indigen(ous) + -ize]This word is first recorded in the period 1950–55. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: Common Market, International Gothic, conflict of interest, point spread, speech recognition-ize is a verb-forming suffix occurring originally in loanwords from Greek that have enteredEnglish through Latin or French (baptize; barbarize; catechize); within English, -ize is added to adjectives and nouns to form transitive verbs with the general senses“to render, make” (actualize; fossilize; sterilize; Americanize), “to convert into, give a specified character or form to” (computerize; dramatize; itemize; motorize), “to subject to (as a process, sometimes named after its originator)” (hospitalize; terrorize; galvanize; oxidize; simonize; winterize). Also formed with -ize are a more heterogeneous group of verbs, usually intransitive, denoting a changeof state (crystallize), kinds or instances of behavior (apologize; moralize; tyrannize), or activities (economize; philosophize; theorize)