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Meaning: (idiomatic)To adopt thelifestyleoroutlookoflocalinhabitants, especially when dwelling in acolonialregion.Synonyms:acculturate,assimilate,integrate1900December –1901October,Rudyard Kipling, chapter 7, inKim(Macmillan’s Colonial Library;no. 414), London:Macmillan and Co., published1901,→OCLC,page177:[…]for St. Xavier's looks down on boys who ‘go nativeall-together.’ One must never forget that one is a Sahib, and that some day, when examinations are passed, one will command natives.1919,W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter 53, inThe Moon and Sixpence,[New York, N.Y.]:Grosset & Dunlap Publishers[…],→OCLC:He was an extraordinary figure, with his red beard and matted hair, and his great hairy chest. His feet were horny and scarred, so that I knew he went always bare foot. He hadgone nativewith a vengeance.2003October 14, Alan Riding, “The Colors of Paradise As Imagined by Gauguin”, inThe New York Times[1],→ISSN:Yet while Gauguinwent native, taking teenage mistresses, wearing local costumes and building his own wooden hut, his ultimate purpose was to impress the art world back home.2011, John Lenczowski,Full Spectrum Diplomacy and Grand Strategy: Reforming the Structure and Culture of U.S. Foreign Policy, Lexington Books,→ISBN,page108:In the case of diplomats, the State Department has had to wrestle with criticisms that regional specialists—say, those who concentrate on the Arab world and speak Arabic—will suffer from “clientitis”: the disease of “going native,” of developing such sympathy for the people and culture of a given region that one begins to represent its interest to America rather than vice versa.2018, Robin Hanson,The Age of Em, page49:Although I have tried to avoid bias, I may have failed. For example, I may have "gone native," a visitor seduced by the charms of a new exotic world.; (idiomatic)Of acontractororconsultant, to begin working directly as anemployeefor a company and cease to work through a contracting firm or agency.1989, Arthur Ernest Fitzgerald,The Pentagonists, page204:[…]we had to stop putting job-hunting colonels in charge ofAFPROdetachments in the plants. It almost always happened that theywent nativeand began to represent the contractor rather than the government.
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