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**tretcheenia** · 09-21-2012, 04:18 PM

Dictionary definitions.
Colonis(z)e: "To settle in a country, usually an underdeveloped one, remote from one's own, and develop its agricultural and other resources."

Occupy: "To take and keep possession of, to hold, as by military forces in war"

Given these definitions I would submit that Japan occupied Thailand, and thus suggest the statement, "we have never been coloniz(s)ed", "prideful and arrogant", or otherwise, is correct.

A matter of semantics, perhaps, but important in this case.

09-21-2012, 04:18 PM	#15
tretcheenia Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 414 Senior Member	Dictionary definitions. Colonis(z)e: "To settle in a country, usually an underdeveloped one, remote from one's own, and develop its agricultural and other resources." Occupy: "To take and keep possession of, to hold, as by military forces in war" Given these definitions I would submit that Japan occupied Thailand, and thus suggest the statement, "we have never been coloniz(s)ed", "prideful and arrogant", or otherwise, is correct. A matter of semantics, perhaps, but important in this case.
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