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

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 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

They could be cross-sections of the way Indigenous and white settler cultures collided and merged in the creation of America.

From New York Times • Jul. 16, 2020

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