colonialism
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| Also called: imperialism the policy and practice of a power in extending control over weaker peoples or areas | |
| co'lonialist | |
| —n, —adj | |
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Cultural Dictionary
colonialism definition
The control of one nation by “transplanted” people of another nation — often a geographically distant nation that has a different culture and dominant racial or ethnic group. (See ethnicity.)
Note: A classic example of colonialism is the control of India by Britain from the eighteenth century to 1947.
Note: Control that is economic and cultural, rather than political, is often called neocolonialism.
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Example sentences
Colonialism is also susceptible of accurate definition.
It defeated fascism, shed colonialism, outlasted communism and survived more than one crisis of its own making.
Then with colonialism, the language started taking words from everywhere.
Shamanism, colonialism, and the wild man a study in terror and healing.
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