Colonialism is understood as a system of territorial conquests by more developed states of countries with an undeveloped statehood or without it at all. It is a system of political domination and economic exploitation.

Orientalism refers to the way the West depicts and misrepresents the East, exaggerating its difference to separate it from the West and create the idea of the East's 'otherness'.

Dominance is any system in which a regime establishes itself and sustains itself through force i.e. the force of the law, police, the military.

Postcolonialism is a social, economic, political, and cultural lens to engage with the legacy and power structures of colonial encounters and their impact in today's world.

'Model minority’ refers to ethnic minority groups that have attained financial and educational success in comparison to other racial groups.