Strand A - Unit 1, Lesson 1 - Vocabulary Builder

When a colonial power leaves the country it had been occupying. The process of a country gaining its independence.

• Decolonization
• Perspective
• Ethnic Group
• Emigrant

People moving from one location to another. This is not always voluntary.

• Immigrant
• Relocation
• Entrepreneur
• Labourer

Someone who works an unskilled manual labour job for wages.

• Social Class
• Colonization
• Decolonization
• Labourer

Someone who leaves their home country and moves to a new country.

• Colonialism
• Racism
• Emigrant
• Decolonization

The process of colonizing a country (e.g., actively promoting the customs of one country into another by taking over control of the government and/or economy).

• Racism
• Colonization
• Classism
• Xenophobia

The process of one country taking over another country, usually to exploit the natural resources. For example, India was once a colony of Britain because Britain wanted access to its natural resources.

• Colonialism
• Displacement
• Relocation
• Settler

Negative actions or thoughts towards people of a different race based on the belief that certain races are better than others.

• Settler
• Newcomer
• Community
• Racism

People who live in a similar geographic area and have things in common.

• Perspective
• Ethnic Group
• Community
• Emigrant

Someone who has moved from another country to a new country.

• Entrepreneur
• Immigrant
• Labourer
• Social Class

A group of people who share a similar cultural background (e.g., religion, food, ethnicity).

• Colonization
• Decolonization
• Ethnic Group
• Colonialism