Colonialism

"[C]olonialism and injustice are never consensual: they are always achieved through the use of force, and perpetuated through the brutalization and degradation of the native people. It was, after all, Mao who announced that political power grows out of the barrel of a gun." 

— Blood In The Snows (Reply to Wang Lixiong)  (by Tsering Shakya | New Left Review | May-June 2002) http://www.friendsoftibet.org/databank/tibethistory/tibeth3.html

Today's word, boys and girls, is colonialism. What is it, you say? Wikipedia defines it as the establishment, exploitation, maintenance, acquisition and expansion of colonies in one territory by people from another territory. It is a process whereby the metropole claims sovereignty over the colony, and the social structure, government, and economics of the colony are changed by colonizers from the metropole. Colonialism is a set of unequal relationships between the metropole and the colony and between the colonists and the indigenous population.

The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy defines colonialism is a practice of domination, which involves the subjugation of one people to another. Frequently, colonialism and imperialism are treated as synonyms.

Examples of this are the Crusades, Britain and the thirteen colonies, France and the Haiti, and Spain and Latin America to name a very few. How is this even relevant? Colonialism is not a thing of the past.

Indonesia is seeing a new corporate colonialism 

Colonialism Today

Neocolonialism on an image of Frida Kahlo

A parody found on YouTube concerning the struggle in Tibet (read the comments, the video itself is silly)