colonial tradition
Settler-era practice
Colonial tradition refers to customs, practices, or cultural elements originating from or associated with a period of colonial rule.
The phrase typically describes architecture, cuisine, governance, or social patterns that developed when one nation controlled another's territory: The house was built in the colonial tradition, with wide porches and shuttered windows.
In American contexts, it often specifically evokes the British colonial era before independence.
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
- empireDomain under unified control
- plantationLarge-scale farming operation
- settlersThose who establish homes
- ancestryFamily line of descent
grand estate · old money · landed gentry · coat of arms · customs · architecture · legacy · British · mother country · Victorian · high society · outpost · homestead · parlor · drawing room · porcelain · silver service · afternoon tea
colonial traditionnative heritage
Ancestral cultural background
indigenous knowledge · traditional knowledge · indigenous culture · folk tradition · local custom
colonial traditionself-governance
Independent management of affairs
indigenous sovereignty · self-determination · national independence · anti-colonial movement · home rule
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