colonialism
co·lo·ni·al·ism (-iz′əm)
noun
Converse of object
- fight: Your opposition to the regime of Mugabe is the ultimate riposte to his fraudulent nonsense about fighting colonialism.
- include: The imports she needed could be bought cheap for a variety of reasons, including colonialism.
- argue: Eric Williams, author of Capitalism and Slavery, argued that colonialism had fertilized every root and branch of industrial capitalism.
- justify: Then they demonized the " coloreds " to justify colonialism.
- discuss: We will return in more detail to the issue of objectivity and identity when we discuss colonialism.
- present: I do have a problem with Anglo-American colonialism presented as an aim toward the liberation of the Arab world.
Noun used with modifier
- century: Divide and conquer was 19th and early 20th century colonialism 's single most successful tactic of domination.
- post: I really enjoyed discussing themes like post colonialism which I had never thought about before.
Adjective modifier
- Portuguese: The Timorese struggle to be a free nation have gone on for many centuries against Portuguese colonialism and then against the militaristic Indonesian government.
- French: The story is set in Saigon during the 1950s, the last days of French colonialism in Vietnam.
- Spanish: None of them survived as landowners after the arrival of Spanish colonialism.
- European: The legacies of European colonialism still resonate throughout the developing world.
- British: The spread of English around the world under British colonialism was a similar phenomenon.
Modifies a noun
- today: Colonialism today takes on a more direct access to the loot.
- and/or: What steps need to be taken to avoid possible intellectual and/or educational colonialism and/or parochialism?
Preposition: in
Le colonialisme accule le peuple domine¤ a' se poser constamment la question: 'Qui suis-je en re¤ alite¤ ?' Colonialism forces the people it dominates to ask themselves the question constantly: 'In reality, who am I?' f
Le colonialisme ne se satisfait pas d'enserrer le peuple dans ses mailles, de vider le cerveau colonise¤ de toute forme et de tout contenu. Par une sorte de perversion de la logique, il s'oriente vers le passe¤ du peuple opprime¤ , le distort, le de¤ figure, l'ane¤ antit. Colonialismisnot satisfiedmerely with holding a people in its grip and emptying the native's brain of all form and content. Bya kind of perverted logic, it turns to the past of the oppressed people, and distorts, disfigures and destroys it.
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