Imperialism -
is policy or ideology of extending a nation's rule over foreign nations, often by military force or by gaining political and economic control of other areas. Imperialism was both normal and common worldwide throughout recorded history, the earliest examples dating from the mid-third millennium BC, diminishing only in the late 20th century. In recent times, it has been considered morally reprehensible and prohibited by international law. Therefore, the term is used in international propaganda to denounce an opponent's foreign policy

The term can be applied to the colonization of the Americas between the 15th and 19th centuries, as opposed to New Imperialism, which describes the expansion of Western Powers and Japan during the late 19th and early 20th century.

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Imperialism usually involves the subjugation and replacement of the indigenous culture. It involves the replacement of the indigenous political system with a variant of the colonizers political system. It involves the suppression and replacement of the indigenous religion with the religion of the colonizers. It replaces the economic system practiced by the indigenous people by a monocrop market economy for which the locals can only participate at the most basic level.

This subjugation was accomplished through violence and intimidation. Locals were forced to become a shadow of their colonizers. Example, "the White Red Man". Forced to become a vestige, but never gaining acceptable equality.

To the point, Imperialism/Colonization changes a culture, and not isually for the better. Even after the initial period of colonization ends, vestiges remain.

Indigenous persons begin to believe the denegrations the colonizers heap on them. They begin to doubt their own culture, they lose esteem and do not feel that they can challenge their colonizers. This becomes a new cultural normal. It continues generation after generstion. It is passed down as a cultural norm.

They carry this in them, and their colonozers pass on the feeling of superiority down generation to generation. They practice this percieved superiority without realizing it.

In countries colonized by western Europe, this is known as ",white privilege", this includes present day America. If an north African country colonized by Muslims, its "arab privilege". Other examples exist around the world and through time.

So for those who say that "white privilege " doesn't exist and is a liberal ruse to re-direct debate, you are sadly mistaken. White privilege is very much alive in the US and an artifact of our heritage.