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Sun Dec-26-04 08:50 AM
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colonialism as practiced in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Invade a country. Put in a sham government that you control. Take over the resources from the people in the country and use them to your own benefit without regard to what the natives want.
You can gussie it up with new names and theories but it is colonialism.
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