Imperialism Cultural Effects Education Gaining Western education generated new identities for a small minority Reading and writing almost magical Access to better paying positions Social mobility and elite status ID: 797672
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IMPERIALISM - Effects
AP World History
Slide2Imperialism-
Cultural
Effects
Education
Gaining Western education generated new identities for a small minority
Reading and writing almost “magical”
Access to better paying positions
Social mobility and elite status
Western educated elite embraced Western culture
Educated elite saw themselves as a vanguards for their societies – leading them forward
Slide3Slide4Cultural Effects - Education
Unfortunately, hopes for a renewal of Asian and African societies fell short
Europeans declined to treat their Asian and African subjects as equals
Conflict between enlightenment ideals of Western thought and realities of colonial racism
Slide5Slide6Cultural Effects – Diffusion
European culture spread
Settler colonies saw greater culture changes
European social norms often enforced
Dressing in “western” clothing
Outlawing subject people’s practices that were taboo in Western, Christian society (practice of Sati in India, for example)
Slide7Aboriginal Cricket Team (Melbourne)
First Indian Cricket team to visit England
Slide8Cultural Effects – Religion
Christianity
Spread by missionaries
Large scale conversions
New Zealand, Pacific Islands, non-Muslim Africa
Associated with Western education
Spread more by African teachers than European missionaries
Christianity became “Africanized”
Slide9Slide10Cultural Effects – Religion
India
Rejected conversion
Renewal and distillation of Hinduism (instead of regional varieties) as an equal to Christianity
Caused Muslims to view themselves as a separate community
Set the stage for profound religious and political divisions in 20
th
century
Slide11Swami Vivekananda
Slide12Cultural Effects – Race and Tribe
Pan-Africanism
Grows from common experience of colonial oppression and racism
Effort to revive cultural self-confidence and to challenge Western superiority
Slide13Cultural Effects – Race and Tribe
Idea of the Tribe
European notion developed to assist colonial rule
Africans found tribal labels useful
In urban areas, ways
to provide mutual
assistance
“Europeans believed Africans belonged to tribes; Africans built tribes to belong to.”
Slide14Slide15Cultural Effects – Gender Roles
Africa
European patriarchy changed roles of African women
Wage labor forced women to manage domestic economies alone
Women’s sexuality and mobility was controlled by European and African men alike
Colonialism provided some opportunities
Opportunities in mission schools, towns, and mines
Small scale trade left to women