colonized
- adjective
- /ˈkɒləˌnaɪzd/
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colonizado
- The post colonials wrote in English or French because their homelands had been colonized by the British or the French.
And I say this as a white person living in colonised Australia on stolen land.
- And I say this as a white person living in colonised Australia on stolen land.
- And we can see that in colonized communities.
- Because it almost always happened in European colonized places, forced to acculturate on pain of death.
- Those areas which are colonised and not integrated have become far too problematic to ignore any more.
Examples
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And so Ethiopia consequently was never colonized, was never run by white folks at all.
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Hawaii was colonized by settlers who introduced new crops and farming techniques.
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And we can see that in colonized communities.
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And it's colonized by by people who want to get away and start something new.
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Now, Korea just was colonized and had yet to face certain restrictions.
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And so this is a moment in which the complexity of the attitude of the colonized is brought up.
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And then after that, and you can tie this in however you like, but speak to sort of the agriculture of pre colonized Hawaii.
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And I say this as a white person living in colonised Australia on stolen land.
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Even before we were colonized, the islands were a rich source of gold ore.
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Those areas which are colonised and not integrated have become far too problematic to ignore any more.
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How Colonized
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Etymology
Colonized comes from the Latin word colonus, meaning 'farmer' or 'settler', and it is the same root as colony. Think of settlers being 'planted' into a place like crops, and that image helps explain why colonized means a place was lived in and controlled by people from another country.