Sentence examples for colonial culture from inspiring English sources

Its history of British dominance meant that Australia was "grounded in British culture and political traditions that had been transported to the Australian colonies in the nineteenth century and become part of colonial culture and politics".

A subversive mockery of colonial culture?

Although five centuries of Portuguese colonial culture have dominated the islands, traditions from Africa are also present.

Mrs. Teller sought to revive all aspects of Colonial culture, including the furniture and the decorative arts, out of her 18th-century headquarters on East 61st Street.

Once a haven for savoring a colonial culture that developed over half a millennium, Macao is now being flooded with the familiar trappings of money and modernity.

It is the founding creation of modern African imaginative literature, the opening act of exploration into African consciousness using traditional modes of expression along with those appropriated from colonial culture, particularly the English language.

But with his jurisdiction being the American cultural terrain, he soon realized that the former colonial cultures can only surmount what remains of the colonialist legacy by continually meeting with the representatives of the various postcolonial European, Asian, African, Australian, and South America cultures to collaborate on the terms for a new global discourse.

Somewhat earlier, at the beginning of the nineteenth century, the English invented canning, also for military use, whereupon the emptied cans entered into colonial cultures.

Whether rejecting, embracing or assimilating the folkloric and the contemporary, the artists in question are products of colonial cultures that have shaped their creative outlooks.

In the early 20th century it was almost universally assumed that traditional cultures would be completely assimilated into colonial cultures within a few decades, thus undermining the strict application of comparative anthropology.

Braithwaite's companion, Ginette Ast, said that he became ill Monday and died at a medical center in Rockville, Md. Schooled in Guyana, the U.S. and Britain, Braithwaite wrote several fiction and nonfiction books, often focusing on racism and class and the contrast between first world and colonial cultures.