I think he was right about the Arieki losing their culture along with their language, even if the way he went about things was less than ideal.
I remember watching traditional Westerns as a child, and being told that the Natives were "savages" and the settlers were good -- or Victorian narratives about the noble British carrying civilization to the "dark" corners of the globe. So I'd argue that at the very least things were morally complicated.
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Date: 2021-02-24 02:49 pm (UTC)I remember watching traditional Westerns as a child, and being told that the Natives were "savages" and the settlers were good -- or Victorian narratives about the noble British carrying civilization to the "dark" corners of the globe. So I'd argue that at the very least things were morally complicated.