The British Empire: A source for good or evil? February 2014 | Page 12

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Christianity brought to native people
in the colonies  : a force for bad ?
The bad aspects of the imposed
religion.

Natives from the British colonies had lots of different religions to
follow : Hinduism and Buddhism in Asia, Tribal cults in North America and
Australia.. But today, these religions seems to have suffered from the
colonialism. How did the British impose their religion ? And was it a force
for bad or for good ? We'll take Canada's example

1
In British schools, the
natives were taught the British
way : as they learned English
and had classical education,
teachers made them study
Catholicism, without teaching
them the traditional native
culture.

Canadian natives learning in a British school

2a
With the
imposed Catholicism
religion, natives
Americans have lost
their traditions as
well as their religion,
for the majority of
them

The lost of the natives traditional religious culture
2a- Around 1850
2b- Nowadays

2b