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Territory that belongs to a country pretending it isn't theft.
means Settlements or regions controlled by a distant power that extracts resources, labor, and obedience while calling it civilization.
from From Latin colonia, a farm or settlement of colonus, a tiller of soil — empire dressed up as agriculture.
Word rootOriginally meant farmer, not conqueror.
Bacteria tooMicrobiologists borrowed the term for cell clusters.
Independence patternMost eventually fired their landlords by force.