white settler
collocation in Englishmeaningsofwhiteandsettler
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white
adjective
uk/waɪt/us/waɪt/
of a colour like that of snow, milk, ...
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settler
noun[C]
uk/ˈset.lər/us/ˈset.lɚ/
a person who arrives, especially from another country, in a new place in order to live there and use ...
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(Definition ofwhiteandsettlerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Both countries experienced awhitesettlercolonial heritage associated with an oligarchical form of governance and constitutionally entrenched racism.
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They were most successful wherewhitesettlerpopulations were small.
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The male interest in keeping women in the rural areas coincided with those of the colonial state andwhitesettleragricultural producers.
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Those at the bottom of the heap - the feckless, the incompetent, the eccentric and the shady - threatened their neighbours' enterprises and undermined the public image ofwhitesettlerprogress.
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Again, also, their presence in the story is registered primarily in terms of violence against thewhitesettlercommunity.
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The point in the mid-1900s at which a new form ofwhitesettlerpastoralism was inserted was thus an unusually volatile one socially, ecologically and epidemiologically.
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However, the political elite viewed the nascent indigenous capitalist class as a potential rival for state power, and came to regard thewhitesettlerclass as a political liability.
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Thewhitesettlerhad evidently been very well briefed.
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It is far too readily assumed by many speakers opposite that thewhitesettleris a bad man.
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This trend of hostility to, thewhitesettleris always prevalent.
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The thing that awhitesettlerabhors more than anything else is inter-marriage.
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You cannot altogether leave outside the influence of thewhitesettlerin the midst of the native population.
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The common roll need not swamp yourwhitesettlerin the least.
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In any event, if awhitesettlergoes to these countries he must depend on native labour in the main.
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But if we vilify thewhitesettler, it is impossible to retain respect for the white man.
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To me it is awhitesettlerproblem.
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The object of that is to make him go out and earn wages, in order to provide thewhitesettlerwith an adequate supply of cheap labour.
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Rhodesia has a population of approximately 4½ million people, and 225,000 of these arewhitesettlerstock.
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