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I too am so tired of the white savior complex that inevitably follows closely behind the white colonial's need for destruction.
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I too am so tired of the white savior complex that inevitably follows closely behind the white colonial's need for destruction.
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I too am so tired of the white savior complex that inevitably follows closely behind the white colonial's need for destruction.
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The origin of the Fourth Amendment of the Bill of Rights, which Congress has been merrily gutting since the Patriot Act, was the hated "general warrant" which allowed British soldiers to enter a colonial's home, barn, and property in search of anything suspicious.
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The boy had built at a colonial's cattle-kraal once.
Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales Arthur Shearly Cripps 1910
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It suited the sergeant's humour to lag behind the other boats by way of asserting his dignity and proving that he, Barboux, held himself at no trumpery colonial's beck and call.
Fort Amity Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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British immigrants were advised to arrange, before leaving, 'to receive a file of some weekly London paper' (Wakefield, quoted in Hankin, 1981, p. 39); this provided important links to 'home' and reinforced the colonial's ties with Britain.
Book & Print in New Zealand: A Guide to Print Culture in New Zealand Penny Griffith 1885
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THE colonial's pre-eminence as house style of choice on the Island may be indisputable, but it hasn't kept fans of a more whimsical approach from making their presence felt, with the recent and wide-ranging use of the turret as an architectural feature in new construction.
NYT > Home Page By MARCELLE S. FISCHLER 2011
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The fiction and essays he wrote after his first ” and for the colonial writer, crucial ” encounter with the West in the 1950s hint at a kind of intellectual self-narrowing that is often the result of the colonial's bewilderment and resentful pride before the metropolitan culture that has partly formed him.
The Great Narayan Mishra, Pankaj 2001
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