| The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002. |
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| The control of one nation by “transplanted” people of another nation—often a geographically distant nation that has a different culture and dominant racial or ethnic group. (See ethnicity.) | 1 |
| ‡ A classic example of colonialism is the control of India by Britain from the eighteenth century to 1947. | 2 |
| ‡ Control that is economic and cultural, rather than political, is often called neocolonialism. | 3 |
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| | | The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. Edited by E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Joseph F. Kett, and James Trefil. Copyright © 2002 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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