imperialism
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- noun
- /ɪmˈpɪəriəlɪzəm/
- The policy of imperialism has often been criticized for its impact on colonized nations.
- cultural imperialism
- American imperialism
- Western imperialism
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Watch on YouTubeThis moment is the foundation upon which all European imperialism grows.
- This moment is the foundation upon which all European imperialism grows.
- And so it's neither eternal Russian imperialism nor is it Western imperialism, right?
- Hitler was also just a reaction to brutal Western imperialism treatment of Germany after World War One.
- So every one of these gems and the diamonds that surround it, they, they represent that imperialism, right?
- And it was a book that was a Marxist critique of Disney as a vector for exporting American corporate and cultural imperialism.
- And the Europeans took the same notion of conquering and applied it to the rest of the human, of the human world too, in colonialism and imperialism.
- So there was this, there was this very strong reaction against American imperialism and and that moved people more and more towards socialism.
- Some people saw it as potentially a better option than imperialism, fascism, and Great Depression.
- Anti colonialism, anti imperialism is the ethos of the world at this point.
- That's what was said, has always been said about imperialism.
- And so the people who do study the laws of motion, well, they study colonialism or imperialism.
- But on the way there, people experimented with things like communism, with things like fascism, with things like imperialism.
Examples
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This war isn't about stopping communism, it's about spreading imperialism!
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But the world had been saved from Japanese imperialism and German fascism.
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And who are his agents of American imperialism?
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Come join our fight against American imperialism.
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This moment is the foundation upon which all European imperialism grows.
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Our enemies are all those in league with imperialism.
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Well, it's impossible to defeat imperialism... ...without identifying its head, the United States of America.
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The Vietnam War dealt a major blow to American imperialism in the Third World.
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Capitalist imperialism is our common enemy.
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In much of the recent work discussing the history of U.S. imperialism, academic and otherwise, indigenous people barely register.
Academic text (2008)
Synonyms
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Control of one country by people from another country who live there and take its resources for profit
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A policy by a country to gain more land or power
A process when a country takes control of other lands and people
Antonyms
Compounds
- Formal
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Long-lasting political, economic, and social problems that continue after one country ruled another
- Formal
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Changes and problems caused when one country controls another, often in colonies
- Specialized
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The spread of one culture's values and ways that weakens local cultures
How Controlling
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Imperialism comes from the Latin imperium 'command' or 'power', the same root as empire and emperor. So, imperialism means a country building an 'empire' by taking control of other lands and people.