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co·lo·ni·al·ism (-iz′əm)

noun

the system or policy by which a country maintains foreign colonies, esp. in order to exploit them economically

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colonialism Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • fight: Your opposition to the regime of Mugabe is the ultimate riposte to his fraudulent nonsense about fighting colonialism.

Noun used with modifier

  • century: Divide and conquer was 19th and early 20th century colonialism 's single most successful tactic of domination.

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.

Modifies a noun

  • today: Colonialism today takes on a more direct access to the loot.

Preposition: in

  • century: These images reflect the imagination at the height of colonialism in the late eighteenth century or early nineteenth century.
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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.

-Fanon, Frantz Omar

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

-Fanon, Frantz Omar

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