Neocolonialism vs Neocolonial - What's the difference?
neocolonialism | neocolonial |
The control or domination by a powerful country over weaker ones (especially former colonies) by the use of economic pressure, political suppression and cultural dominance.
Of or pertaining to, or based on, neocolonialism
*{{quote-news, 1988, January 29, Michael Miner, Art of Our Arrogance/Rethinking Vietnam, Chicago Reader
, passage=One of the things that was a sin of ours, and the neocolonial arrangement we tried to produce, was that we had all the answers and they had none. }}
*{{quote-news, 2009, January 18, Haroon Siddiqui, Obama cannot walk on water but he can disperse dark clouds, Toronto Star
, passage=This is a racist, neocolonial construct. }}
As a noun neocolonialism
is the control or domination by a powerful country over weaker ones (especially former colonies) by the use of economic pressure, political suppression and cultural dominance.As an adjective neocolonial is
of or pertaining to, or based on, neocolonialism.neocolonialism
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