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/kəlˈoʊniəlˌɪzəm/ Listen

Colonialism

noun

Exploitation by a stronger country of weaker one; the use of the weaker country's resources to strengthen and enrich the stronger country.

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"Colonialism" Quotes from Famous Books

... writes, and recites, poems about ranches and canyons; they are designed to betray the recklessness of his nature and to reveal the good that lurks in the lawless ways of a young society. He is there to explain himself, voluble, with a glossary for his own artless slang. But his colonialism is only provincialism very articulate. The new air does but make old decadences seem more stale; the young soil does but set into fresh conditions the ready-made, the uncostly, the refuse feeling of a race decivilizing. He who played long this pattering part of youth, hastened to assure you ...

— Essays • Alice Meynell

Words linked to "Colonialism" : exploitation, colonialist, victimisation, using, neocolonialism, victimization