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Why are colonies on uninhabited or previously uninhabitable lands not mentioned? With possible Moon-, Mars-, or deep-sea-colonies popping up in media all the time the topic should be part of the article, shouldn't it?

Question 2A02:3037:205:98A0:DC0C:2EBF:ADDC:52D0 (talk) 09:27, 20 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Because they are not yet a reality. The Banner talk 10:52, 20 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

They weren't a reality during the peopling of the world? If not how does colonizing barren wastes constitute more coloniality than lush terrestrial ecosystems? 2A02:C7C:D5F6:A300:B5A8:24B9:F5FF:A369 (talk) 23:06, 21 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The Falkland Islands are mentioned. Wikipedia is a reflection of what is written in reliable sources; there has been very little discussion of the colonisation of uninhabited lands in sources because it only happened in a handful of small-scale cases. AntiDionysius (talk) 23:13, 21 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Are/were there any significant colonies on uninhabited or previously uninhabitable lands? All I can think of are a few small islands and perhaps the antarctic claims. Horse Eye's Back (talk) 00:37, 22 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah I think the Falklands and the Azores are the only two cases of any real scale. After that it's Pitcairn Island-level stuff.

And frankly one could reasonably ask if it makes any conceptual sense to include such cases within the definition of colonialism; the only thing that makes them distinct from all other migration of humans into new, uninhabited territories is that they took place much more recently (because of accidents of geography) and under the auspices of states which did colonialism elsewhere. AntiDionysius (talk) 00:50, 22 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Modern colonialism

Hi, should there be an article on discussion around modern examples of colonialism? Off the top of my head it could talk about Zionism as settler colonialism, Western Sahara ([1]), overseas territories such as New Caledonia, neocolonialism in Africa, Sinicization as in the cases of Hong Kong and Xinjiang, and do so in a way that wasn't just superficial and represented the weighting. Alexanderkowal (talk) 17:34, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

neocolonialism

If in fact the world does get colonized (again) we can just pretend that we don't live on the planet Earth.

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colonization of Palestine

colonization of Palestine by UK/Israel/USA is not mentioned enough (it is not mentioned at all in Migrations section) 194.63.133.126 (talk) 10:50, 12 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Since when do the United States maintain colonies in the region? Dimadick (talk) 12:12, 12 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

What about the 'hypothesis' that colonialism never ended, but has only grown in ever more exponential growths since the '40s / '90s (the usual 'cutoff' dates) and that 'so-called' "decolonisation" and "nationalisms" were merely newer advancements of colonialism that have eclipsed all previous 'stages' (such as the 19th/16th cent.s) combined ?? And that it began close to 600 years ago with the planting of the first tomato/potato/cinchona in the old world?

And here defines 'Europe' (the 'coloniser continent') as including everything between what is currently known's - West/North Iran, Arabia/ME, Red sea/Gulf of Aden, Iceland and South Mediterranean/Gibraltar, and even parts of Ethiopia and Somalia¹!('per the definitions of "known world", "Abrahamic" and "Caucasoid") while considering to be part of the 'New World' the entirety of modern/historical Russian territory (except for the the extreme northwest) as well as 50% of Ukraine (particularly east, central, south) 2402:E280:3D1D:563:C007:4085:1E64:1CEB (talk) 09:18, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

¹And, for the sake of 'convenience', United States + the other developed countries of the 'Americas' 2402:E280:3D1D:563:C007:4085:1E64:1CEB (talk) 09:19, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

A 'bizarre' unorthodox theory I read somewhereQuestion 2402:E280:3D1D:563:C007:4085:1E64:1CEB (talk) 09:22, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]