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Colonialism In Trinidad And Tobago

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Name: Shanelle Daniel
ID: 00061379
Course: History of Trinidad and Tobago
Course Code: HIST 210 (Fully Online)
Crn: 15244
Assignment: Individual Research Project
Question: 2
Imagine that you are a young indigenous person in Trinidad and the Spaniards have colonized your people. Write a journal where you record details of the nature of this colonization.

Introduction
Colonialism is a practice of domination, which involves the subjugation of one people to another. The term colony comes from the Latin word colonus, meaning farmer. This root reminds us that the practice of colonialism usually involved the transfer of population to a new territory, where the arrivals lived as permanent settlers while maintaining political allegiance to their country of origin (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Colonialism is the establishment and maintenance, for an extended time, of rule over an alien people that is separate from and subordinate to the ruling power. It is no longer closely associated with the term “colonization,” which involves the settlement abroad of people from a mother country, as in the case of the ancient Greek colonies or the Americas. Colonialism has now come to be identified with rule over peoples of different race inhabiting lands separated by salt water from the imperial centre; more particularly, it signifies direct political control by European states or states settled by Europeans, as the United States or Australia, over peoples of other races, notably over

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