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  2. Civilizing mission - Wikipedia

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    The civilizing mission (Spanish: misión civilizadora; Portuguese: Missão civilizadora; French: Mission civilisatrice) is a political rationale for military intervention and for colonization purporting to facilitate the cultural assimilation of indigenous peoples, especially in the period from the 15th to the 20th centuries.

  3. Civilization - Wikipedia

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    The emergence of table manners and other forms of etiquette and self-restraint are presented as a characteristic of civilized society by Norbert Elias in his book The Civilizing Process (1939). The English word civilization comes from the French civilisé ('civilized'), from Latin: civilis ('civil'), related to civis ('citizen') and civitas ...

  4. Cultural assimilation of Native Americans - Wikipedia

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    George Washington formulated a policy to encourage the "civilizing" process. [2] He had a six-point plan for civilization which included: impartial justice toward Native Americans; regulated buying of Native American lands; promotion of commerce; promotion of experiments to civilize or improve Native American society; presidential authority to ...

  5. White savior - Wikipedia

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    The term white savior is a critical description of a white person who is depicted as liberating, rescuing or uplifting non-white people; it is critical in the sense that it describes a pattern in which people of color in economically under-developed nations that are majority non-white are denied agency and are seen as passive recipients of white benevolence.

  6. Postcolonialism - Wikipedia

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    Notably, la mission civilisatrice, the self-ascribed 'civilizing mission' of the French Empire, proposed that some races and cultures have a higher purpose in life, whereby the more powerful, more developed, and more civilized races have the right to colonize other peoples, in service to the noble idea of "civilization" and its economic benefits.

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  8. Christianization - Wikipedia

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    Referred to as the "Civilizing Mission", the goal was a political and religious community representative of an ideal society as articulated through the progressive theory of history. This common theory of the time asserts that history shows the normal progression of society is toward constant betterment; that humans could therefore eventually ...

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