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By doing so, Europeans could cherish a rather unambiguously heroic image of themselves as conquerors or righteous civilisers of the non-Western world.
These two components were very closely linked: Christianity was central to the British culture that the civilisers encouraged Indigenous people to adopt, and the Christianity that the missionaries preached was so strongly imbued with European values and ways of understanding the world that Europeanisation was an essential element in the christianisation process.
The so-called civilisers have a responsibility to act in a civilised manner.
 
 
 
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