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Coined by Trinidadian-British writer V. S. Naipaul in 1967 in his book The Mimic Men from mimic and men.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
mimic men
Today it means: Post-colonial people that, through lack of ready alternatives, imitate practices of the pre-independence colonising people, maybe inappropriately. Full definition →