Synonyms for colonialism
kəˈloʊ ni əˌlɪz əmcolo·nial·ism

Princeton's WordNet

1. colonialismnoun

   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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1. • Exploitation

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1. List of paraphrases for "colonialism":

   colonization, decolonization, colonial, colonialist, colonisation

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1. Jamaal Bowman:

   Congress, like education, like every American institution, is rooted in European settler colonialism and white supremacy.

2. Naomi Evans:

   There has been such an awakening of how racism, capitalism, colonialism, enslavement of people, has impacted our everyday lives and people are starting to see how problematic two people who have directly benefited from colonialism and the Empire, walking around, smiling and laughing, how that actually is not adding anything to these countries, there's absolutely no need for them. What do they represent ? What is the message that you're saying when you're sending people who have colonized, stolen from other countries, and you're sending representatives over there ? For what ? I don't understand what the purpose is of them unless it's to go and apologize, and to start talking about how you repair the damage.

3. Namira Negm:

   The full decolonization of Mauritius, and of Africa, is long overdue, the ICJ has made The ICJ clear that this must be accomplished today and not tomorrow. Only then the Africans can be free and the continent can aspire to live free of colonialism.

4. Friederike Otto:

   I think it's absolutely justified to say,' We need, finally, some real commitment to addressing loss and damage from climate change, a lot of what leads to disaster is related to existing vulnerabilities and not to human-caused climate change. But of course, the Global North plays a very large role in that as well, because a lot of these vulnerabilities are from colonialism and so on. So there is a... very huge responsibility for the Global North to finally do something real and not just talk.

5. Giuliani Giuliani:

   This isn't racism. This is socialism or possibly anti-colonialism.