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novice_81

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German
Hi

Neither they (Aborigines), nor the Native Americans, nor any other primal peoples are ever likely to become fully paid-up members of European colonial societies, precisely because of their less “sharpened” sense of ego.

--- Does "paid-up" in this context mean that they will never become members of the society and pay different contributions like eg. insurance premium, public collection???
"Paid-up" is used figuratively to mean a complete member who has signed up for the full package, in this case they are not wholly adapting the European mentality even if they are adopting some of the European customs or bevaviours.
When I looked it up in the longman dictionary I found the following.
Please refer to it

paid-up British English informal

a fully paid-up member of something

if someone is a fully paid-up member of a particular group, they strongly support what that group likes or believes in:

a fully paid-up member of the celebrity circuit
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