COLONIALISM AND IMPERIALISM
COLONIALISM AND ITS ANALYSIS
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To help.
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To give food and clothes to.
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To send them to school so they could get good jobs.
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To educate the Africans on European way of life.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The civilizing mission was the cultural justification for the colonial exploitation of French Algeria, French West Africa, French Indochina, Portuguese Angola and Portuguese Guinea, Portuguese Mozambique and Portuguese Timor, among other colonies.
Detailed explanation-2: -The mission civilisatrice (the French for “civilizing mission"; Portuguese: Missão civilizadora) is a rationale for intervention or colonization, proposing to contribute to the spread of civilization, mostly in reference to the Westernization of indigenous peoples.
Detailed explanation-3: -In the nineteenth-and twentieth-century era of imperialism the civilizing mission was an ever-shifting set of ideas and practices that was used to justify and legitimize the establishment and continuation of overseas colonies, both to subject peoples and to citizens or subjects in the homeland.
Detailed explanation-4: -During this time, many European countries expanded their empires by aggressively establishing colonies in Africa so that they could exploit and export Africa’s resources. Raw materials like rubber, timber, diamonds, and gold were found in Africa. Europeans also wanted to protect trade routes.