On 13 June 2010 19:36, J. Colaco < jc> <[email protected]> wrote:
> d: A question has to be asked: If people can be sold to others as > slaves, can it be stated accurately that they (the people) were not > colonised? Colonialism is one thing. Slavery another. QUOTE Colonialism is the building and maintaining of colonies in one territory by people based elsewhere. Colonialism is a process whereby sovereignty over the colony is claimed by the metropole, who impose a new government and perhaps a new social structure and economy. Colonialism comprises unequal relationships between metropole and colony and between colonists and the indigenous population. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonialism UNQUOTE The above definition suggests that colonial rulers are "based elsewhere". FN PS: Is this an extension of the colonialism-started-in-Goa-in-1961 debate? As subtle a Colaco trap as any :-)
