Encyclopedia > Neo-colonialism

  Article Content

Neocolonialism

Redirected from Neo-colonialism

Neocolonialism is a term which describes to colonialism in the post-empire age.

Neocolonialism comprises the exercise of influence over another less-developed nations, areas or sectors by economic, language, cultural and political means rather than by the traditional colonialist methods of military-political take-over and direct control.

Cultural colonialism[?] may emasculate a nation through its education system[?] as well as other aspects of cultural life, including art, theatre, cinema and television. In this way, in some countries in Africa and the Philippines the official and learning languages[?] (French or English) are not the national languages[?] or the most spoken.

Through economic colonialism[?], one country can control another's economy. Multinational corporations as well as states can indulge in neocolonialism.

See also : colonialism, third world.



All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

 
  Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!
 
 
  
  Featured Article
French resistance

... in Paris. Comité Départemental de Libération[?] (CDL or Departmental Liberation Committee) Comité Français de la Libération Nationale[?] (CFLN or French ...

 
 
 
This page was created in 38.4 ms