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Colonialism is the practice of extending and maintaining political, social, economic, and cultural domination over a territory and its people by another people in pursuit of interests defined in an often distant metropole, who also claim superiority. While frequently an imperialist project, colonialism functions through differentiating between the…
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| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Colonialism | is a | practice of extending and maintaining political | 0.90 | text |
| Colonialism | is a | existence of colonies | 0.90 | text |
| Colonialism | is a | notion of uneven structural power between areas of a state | 0.90 | text |
| Colonialism | is a | process involving elements of both settler and internal colonialism | 0.90 | text |
| protectorates or informal spheres of influence | instance of | which are by definition governed differently from other territories | 0.80 | text |
| Young who wrote that imperialism implements state policy | instance of | Imperialism and colonialism have been distinguished by scholars | 0.80 | text |
| while colonialism may reflect commercial intentions | instance of | Imperialism and colonialism have been distinguished by scholars | 0.80 | text |
| although supported by force | instance of | Imperialism and colonialism have been distinguished by scholars | 0.80 | text |
| the Russian | instance of | Contiguous land empires | 0.80 | text |
| Chinese or Ottoman have traditionally been called imperialist | instance of | Contiguous land empires | 0.80 | text |
| although they also sent populations into their remote territories | instance of | Contiguous land empires | 0.80 | text |
| the Venetians | instance of | with competitors | 0.80 | text |
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