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Colonial in sentence

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The colonial borders are being called into question, and what will become of Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, and Jordan is difficult to forecast.
It is ironic, therefore, that Britain has long ago repealed its own similar prohibition, while India retains its law as a colonial relic.
All too often, poor countries’ approach to education remains stuck in the colonial era, favoring rote memorization over true learning.
To call China a colonial power is to diminish the true horrors that were faced by the colonized communities, including by my own relatives, who were detained by the British colonial authorities.
Yet among all the speeches and fireworks of this TV extravaganza, one aspect was totally overlooked: the political will of the six million citizens of the British Crown Colony, now transferred -- without ever having been consulted in any way -- from an imperial, albeit recently liberal, colonial rule to that of the largest non-democratic and repressive regime in the world today.
The EU’s continuing presence as a colonial power in places like Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo could cause even more problems in the future, especially if benefits are not forthcoming.
Perhaps I am just a jaundiced colonial, but let me count the ways this all seems to me to be a fantasy.
The practice of film censorship is yet another relic of a bygone colonial era, the values of which Indians have too readily internalized.
The locals are being dealt with as tribes, according to the modern colonial model.
And ISIS has served as the ideal monster for many colonial occupiers eager to appear less villainous than they are.
As Frederick Mackeson, a British colonial officer, observed of the tribesmen in 1850, “their fidelity is measured by the length of the purse of their seducer, and they transfer their obedience according to the liberality of the donation.”
The British moved some members of the tribes from the unsettled areas of the frontier to the settled (colonial) areas.
But they rarely appreciate the texture of their democracy and civil society – the relative newness of hard-won freedoms and the intimate understanding of what tyranny, whether a homegrown dictatorship or a colonial administration, means to individual liberty.
The UK no longer needs to protect its trade routes to colonial India, and the US no longer needs a ring of military bases to contain the Soviet Union.
They were only too willing to advise Europe to work harder and spend less, as legitimate pride mingled with an understandable desire to settle historical scores and attenuate their legacies of colonial submission and humiliation.
Japan was supposed to return its colonial possessions, but the United States took over the Senkaku Islands along with Okinawa, before returning both to Japan in 1972.
In South Korea, one of the most painful legacies of the Japanese colonial period stems from the Korean elite’s widespread collaboration at the time.
When Southeast Asia's colonial rulers were overthrown four decades ago, ethnic Chinese often shunned the nationalist movements that fought for independence.
In a recent conversation about Syria with a couple of well-known foreign policy experts, one participant suggested that the Middle East’s current borders, drawn in colonial times, cannot last and must be redrawn.
That helped European countries dominate the century as expansionist colonial powers.
One of the great ironies of colonial history is the way in which colonized people adopted some of the very prejudices that justified colonial rule.
Although it once protected people in tropical areas by scaring away colonial invaders, malaria now burdens those same people by scaring investors and other outsiders away.
They were also preoccupied with resisting foreign intrusions by former colonial powers, not least the US.
I grew up in Kenya, where my compatriots follow the English Premier League zealously, perhaps because of our colonial connection to England.
But, while centuries of struggle to end colonial rule and apartheid have not changed this much, now Western influence is being challenged by China, which likewise covets Africa’s rich reserves of minerals and resources.
They were savage colonial conflicts under the Czar and almost genocidal under Stalin, who deported the whole Chechen population, a third of which perished during their transfer to the Gulag.
More recently, South Korea’s Supreme Court ordered a major Japanese steelmaker to compensate the “victims of forced labor” during Japan’s colonial rule of Korea, even though a 1965 bilateral agreement was supposed to have settled “completely and finally” all such claims.
While South Korea obviously should not disregard its history, it should find a way to move past its colonial subjugation and form new, mutually beneficial relationships with Japan, much as India, Taiwan, the Philippines, and Indonesia have done with their former colonizers.
India’s nationalists were determined to enjoy the democracy that their colonial rulers had denied them, and convinced themselves that the British system was best.
The colonial powers that filled the vacuum left by the declining empire had their own militaries, and therefore did not need local forces to govern.
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