Civilizing

According to Blattberg, a border assumes a significantly sharper contrast between the civilized and the uncivilized since, unlike a frontier process, the civilizing force is not supposed to be shaped by that which it is civilizing.

McDonald’s also sought to become a “civilizing influence” through an ad showing two young Black brothers.

During the early decades of the century, Indian policy was influenced primarily by missionaries who believed that the teachings of the Bible and acceptance of the Sabbath were the best means for civilizing Indians and integrating them into society.

In her memoirs, Salme confronted the rationale that colonization was a humanitarian act of civilizing the peoples of Africa and the Middle East.

It was eerie, but at the same time incredibly civilizing.

Women aren’t a panacea, but there’s no question they’re a civilizing influence in politics that brings a much needed alternative to Ottawa’s alpha-male attitudes.

Yet somehow, the kind of constitutional thought that carries legal sway today prohibits expressions of faith or displays of a civilizing moral code in government-controlled spheres.

A key argument that was often invoked as a justification for colonialism in Africa was that of the "civilizing influence" of the European culture.

Convinced that they had a " civilizing mission ", they envisioned Indochina's participation in a French Union of former colonies that shared the common experience of French culture.

Dew and others believed that they were civilizing African Americans through slavery; most by then were native born, with their own stake in the United States.

Each of these successive "civilizing" cultural centers participated in violent conflict and peaceful economic interaction with both the Plains and Mountain tribal groups.

Furthermore, these assertions promoted the use of military force as a means of "civilizing" and "pacifying" the "savages".

He formulated a policy to encourage the "civilizing" process, and Thomas Jefferson continued it.

Imperialists could claim that they were both civilizing the world and spreading the true religion.

In this sense, the law is a civilizing force, and therefore Rousseau believed that the laws that govern a people helped to mold their character.

Leaving the task of civilizing his people to his son, he gathers together a band of old comrades "to sail beyond the sunset".

The Church proceeded with its civilizing mission of literacy and education, and the estates of the realm started to emerge with their own separate identities.

The Romans were strong believers in what they called their "civilizing mission".

The term was earlier used in sociology by Norbert Elias in The Civilizing Process (1939) and in Marcel Mauss 's account of "body techniques" (techniques du corps).

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has also conducted a study about civilizing such thrust vectoring systems to recover jetliners from catastrophes.