Civilizing mission
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civilizing-mission-208-4926097
title:
Civilizing mission
text:
The civilizing mission is a political rationale for military intervention and for colonization purporting to facilitate the Westernization or Japanization of indigenous peoples, especially in the period from the 15th to the 20th centuries. As a principle of Western culture, the term was most prominently used in justifying French colonialism in the late-15th to mid-20th centuries. The civilizing mission was the cultural justification for the colonization of French Algeria, French West Africa, Fre
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description:
Purported rationale or justification for colonialism
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilizing_mission
date created:
2006-01-25T06:29:54Z
date modified:
2024-09-11T07:42:30Z
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