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Missionaries v. Barbie Savior
Laderman drew undeniable similarities between European, Christian settlers conquest to “save” the Native Americans/American Indians, meaning convert them from their native religions to Christianity, and the same which happened to the natives in Hawai’i. Laderman explained that in both what is the continental US now and Hawai’i, the natives “were assumed by the white invaders to be racial inferiors.” As a result, Laderman detailed that “The Americans thus set out to racially uplift the savages in their midst. This meant an effort to eradicate those cultural traditions that were a presumed mark of indigenous barbarism and replace them with Christianity” (Laderman, 11). As Laderman continued to describe the similarities between the forced christianization of the American Indians and the native Hawaiians, I could not help but notice the similarities between these and the current popular Christian missionary trips to various countries in Africa and South America that many of my friends ...
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