Talk:Civilizing mission

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The article topic is valid indeed, but the focus on French and Portuguese colonialism is arbitrary to the point of ridicule. This notion played a central role in all of colonialism, and beyond. Search for "civilizing mission", "civilisatory mission" and "mission civilisatrice" on google books and you find references covering all of colonialism, from the 17th to the 20t century, as well as references to Zionism, Marxism, and post-WWII Umerziehung as well as American imperialism. --dab (𒁳) 10:09, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

Agree to the above. see here for example. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. The article needs to be made balanced Bilal.scientist (talk) 22:50, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

I agree. The French section could be improved if more information on how the idea of civilizing mission was used to justify the imperialism of France under the early Third Republic.

Russian answer?

What was the Tsarist version of mission civilisatrice, called?...what started from Catherine the Great into Soviet times... Le Anh-Huy (talk) 18:51, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

Paragraphs... Won't somebody please think of the paragraphs?!

Seriously. Two of the sections need cleaning up. Faijer (talk) 18:36, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

Portuguese ... waht ???

Unheard of in Portugal ... it's a pure FRENCH problem.

Why does this article cover 1/2 the portuguese history instead of the subject in the title... viewed in the francophone idolatry point of view ??? The Portuguese Colonial War began in Portuguese Angola on 4 February 1961, in an area called the Zona Sublevada do Norte No it didn't ... it started in european Portugal with a failed coup de etat atempt ... in fact it was a large scale (french intelectual influenced ?) atempt to reclaim ALL portuguese possessions in early 1961. About the rest ... why not just quote the entire western civilization ??? since in portugal we were "civilized" by the Greek , phoenician , celtic , romans and such. Sotavento (talk) 12:13, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

French Civilizing Mission

I believe French civilizing mission and its origins should be discussed more throughly. It can be discussed under the headlines as:

- The roots of the civilizing mission - Purposes the mission served - The applications of the civilizing mission - Controversies about the civilizing mission - The civilizing mission and the Third Republic

The notion that France has a "civilizing mission" for the non- Western world had a very big influence throughout the French colonial era. There were so many different propagandas to promote this idea for the public. For example the Expositions, comics, articles and newspaper that were published, advertisements, paintings.. etc.

Britain

No mention of Britain, although there is a paragraph dedicated to France, Spain, Portugal. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.127.223.233 (talk) 06:59, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

The term "civilizing mission" isn't really associated with Britain. I guess a short paragraph might make sense though. —Brigade Piron (talk) 08:09, 5 October 2015 (UTC)