white settler

British  

noun

1. a well-off incomer to a district who takes advantage of what it has to offer without regard to the local inhabitants

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Etymology

Origin of white settler

C20: from earlier colonial sense

Example Sentences

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white settler

The uprising began in the early 1950s, as the country's major ethnic grouping, the Kikuyu, grew increasingly resentful of their British rulers over white settler expansion and a lack of political representation.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2023

The locals called Columbus “Possum Town,” a nickname bestowed by Choctaw and Chickasaw inhabitants who thought one early white settler looked like a marsupial.

From New York Times ● Mar. 10, 2022

The communities of the Northwest Territories, with a population descended from Indigenous and white settler families, stand out for their struggles with mental health, which are in many cases connected to Canada’s damaging colonial history.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 21, 2022

The point of commonality – both Inuit and Cree being Canadian indigenous people – positions a shared history of dispossession by a white settler colony as erasing cultural and artistic distinctions.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 29, 2019

The situation in Algeria was the closest model to our own in that the rebels faced a large white settler community that ruled the indigenous majority.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela