culturizar

To civilize or bring someone into a culture — to instill the norms, customs, or values of a culture in a person or group, often used of transmitting culture to others rather than of one's own self-improvement.

• La colonización pretendía culturizar a los pueblos originarios. — Colonization claimed to be civilizing indigenous peoples.
• El proyecto busca culturizar a la comunidad sobre el reciclaje. — The project seeks to educate the community culturally about recycling.
• No es lo mismo culturizar que cultivarse. — Culturizing someone isn't the same as becoming more cultured yourself.

Style guides note that culturizar is often misused where cultivarse (to become more cultured, of oneself) is meant — culturizar properly means instilling culture in someone else, often with a top-down or even colonial connotation.

Often confused with cultivar.