Question

What is the meaning of ‘civilizing mission’? What impact did the mission have in Vietnam under French rule?

Answer 1

The mission civilisatrice (in English "civilizing mission") was a rationale for intervention or colonization, purporting to contribute to the spread of civilization, and used mostly in relation to the Westernization of indigenous peoples in the 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th centuries."