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| Author: | |
| Title: | East beats West |
| Journal: | Asiaweek
1995 : SEP, VOL. 21:36, p. 40-43 |
| Index terms: | ASIA STRIKES RELIGION |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | Modern Europe eclipsed Asia in terms of industrial strength, and the booty of imperialism gave it great economic and political power. Europeans felt they were a superior people with a superior culture and had a duty to civilize the world, which meant, first of all, converting people to Christianity. They sent missionaries to the countries of the Pacific to convert people to Christianity and civilize them. Of course this was ridiculous because in Asia they had an advanced civilization centuries before Europe. |
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