Does colonialism and slavery belongs in the past?

Our country is just one of the nation in our world that experienced thorough colonialism, being a colony of Spain for more than 300 years and lesser years from U.S and at around 3 years from Japan we can certainly tell that we are no longer new to this event. Even this scenario has been happened years ago, can we really tell that colonialism belongs to the past?

If we talk about the colonialism we expereinced before i say that it no longer exist and it really does belongs to the past. But as times goes by colonialism transforemd into a new identity and barely i can identify it as globalization. Colonialism as described by Kate manzo is a "direct political control of a perople by a foreign sate" (berntein, Hewiit and Thomas 1992: 168) as "the control by one group over another inhibiting a separate territory" (De Alva 1995: 262). And with colonialism, slavery is more or else inter-related because just by the definition of colonialism it implicates over ruling/dictatorship.

As of now, we may have not experienced DIRECT colonialism but as we open up ourselves to the world and our nation's decisions in policy making is always influenced by our relationship with other countries i can surely say that colonialism doesn't really belongs to the past, because it still exist in our present time. As for slavery, even though there are no longer direct brutal slavery happening in the world just like before, there are still slavery in the sense of oppressing the workers and not giving them proper benefits and wages.

It is really ideal to think that colonialism and slavery have already belonged to the past. It will be an ideal society if I may add. However, in our world of globalization these words may already be too strong to use but honestly and sadly speaking are still existing. However, I believe that this may be abolished if people have already learned to accept that power and superiority must no longer be prioritize and that everyone deserves equal chances and rights.