colonialism

noun5

1. •
   The seizure of geographical area to extract its natural resources or exploit the labor of the indigenous peoples to remotely benefit a distant country.
2. •
   The subjugation of a weaker country, population, or people by a dominant country, population, or people.

   • It was the racist, settler colonialism that created whiteness, that created blackness, half-caste, quarter-caste, octoroon, that saw mixed-race people as a third race. — 2021
3. •
   Any form of foreign influence seen as undesirable.
4. •
   Colonial life.
5. •
   A colonial word, phrase, concept, or habit.

   • Although the settlement seems so far to have made but slow progress, there are many things which show that, to use a colonialism, "the place was going ahead." — 1887