imperial boomerang

English

Noun

imperial boomerang (plural imperial boomerangs)

  1. (sociology) A phenomenon in colonizing countries where techniques of control and repression developed for use against the colonized are later used against the citizens of the colonizing country itself.
    Synonym: Foucault's boomerang

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