Colonialism

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"Colonialism" in a Sentence (13 examples)

More recently, tension has been fed by colonialism that denied rights and opportunities to many Muslims, and a Cold War in which Muslim-majority countries were too often treated as proxies without regard to their own aspirations.

Many have suffered oppression and misery for a long period of time under the rule of colonialism.

Many have long suffered oppression and hardship under colonialism.

It's ironic that one of the most colonialist countries of all times accuses Buenos Aires of colonialism!

The scramble for Africa was the last wave of colonialism.

The myth of objectivity has played a central role in colonialism, allowing the experience of the colonized to be easily discounted while the objectivity of the colonizer's justice system is never questioned.

The collapse of colonialism and communism has allowed more people than ever before to live with the freedom to choose their leaders.

Most Algerians will prefer French colonialism to seeing a Berber Algeria.

Algeria denounces colonialism everywhere in the world.

Countries that were formerly subject to colonialism still show its effects generations later.

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Though most of the cases here cover European encounters with non-Europeans, it is not the intention of the book to give the impression that genocide is a function of European colonialism and imperialism alone.

It was the racist, settler colonialism that created whiteness, that created blackness, half-caste, quarter-caste, octoroon, that saw mixed-race people as a third race.

Although the settlement seems so far to have made but slow progress, there are many things which show that, to use a colonialism, "the place was going ahead."

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