People or groups that have extraterritorial status; individuals exempt from local jurisdiction due to their position or diplomatic standing.
From 'extraterritorial' (adjective) + '-s' (forming plural nouns). This term developed in legal and historical contexts to describe the privileged populations in treaty ports and colonial cities.
In historical treaty ports like Shanghai, the foreign 'extraterritorials' lived in their own segregated areas with their own laws—it was basically creating a foreign bubble inside another country, which created huge tension.
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