Sentence examples for was colonialist from inspiring English sources

In his influential 1978 book "Orientalism," the scholar Edward W. Said called it a Eurocentric "cultural apparatus" that was colonialist and degrading to Arab-Islamic peoples.

"When we do too much they say we're colonialist," he continued.

By drawing on international law, literature on COTM unwittingly imposes an "ideal" that may not be consistent with local perceptions and might be seen as being colonialist in nature.

The BBC's Will Grant said it was a symbolic but important show of unity in a region which considers the UK government's approach over Mr Assange to have been colonialist and threatening.

The Workmans' works are colonialist in that they describe the people they meet and observe as "exotic or unusual, at worst as primitive or even subhuman".

Indeed, the liberal establishment is teaching Israeli youth that the country's founders were colonialists who subjugated the Arabs and drove them from their homeland.

They may not be colonialists themselves but they are taking advantage of their position as the descendants of colonialists to acquire, market and profit from resources which belong only as much to them as to anyone else.

"One harsh view would say that the people who were collecting this stuff were colonialists who were basically intent on stealing Aboriginal land... settling the country and opening it up to pastoralism.

"There was this colonialist idea of the noble savage which motivated the programme," Wole Soyinka said about the documentary.

My father was a colonialist and I followed what he said until I was in my 20s and learned to think for myself.

During the debate, the Minister for Energy Kiraitu Murungi claimed the ICC was a colonialist, imperialist court.