pseudocolonialism
English
editEtymology
editFrom pseudo- + colonialism.
Noun
editpseudocolonialism (uncountable)
- Something which resembles or appears to be colonialism (in various senses), but is really not.
- 1980, Reid Luhman, Stuart Gilman, Race and Ethnic Relations: The Social and Political Experience of Minority Groups, Belmont, C.A.: Wadsworth Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 101:
- However, it does not make sense to talk of blacks, who make up 85 percent of the population of South Africa, as a majority, because given the pseudocolonialism of apartheid (the legal segregation of the races), blacks have no power at all.
- 2004, Julian Darley, High Noon for Natural Gas: The New Energy Crisis, White River Junction, V.T.: Chelsea Green Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 196:
- English is the language of business, science, and technology, the language of modern empire and pseudocolonialism, and the language of Hollywood, of mechanized, corporate culture and consumption.