"civilizing mission" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a mission of a group or organization to promote values and customs they consider civilized in other countries or cultures. For example, "The British empire had an official policy of a civilizing mission when they colonized India in the 18th century."
The connection between art and propaganda as you examine how Vergil either contributes to or subverts the vision of Rome's imperial destiny and civilizing mission.
"This was the desperate anxiety, the yearning for rebirth, that lay behind official ideologies of romantic nationalism, imperial progress and civilizing mission — and that led to the trenches of the Western Front".
Monnais convincingly shows how the French colonialists' civilizing mission, focusing on improving the economic life of the indigenous population, resulted, in fact, in the wider spread of malaria, largely due to the expanding railroad network.
This covert Americanization is particularly striking in India, where a class of Anglophilic administrators and intellectuals under Jawaharlal Nehru took over from British colonials their civilizing mission, turning it into a project to catch up with the West.
Fuelled by the crazy stories of missionaries determined to rid the world of heathen Hindus and steeped in the ideologies of the colonizers' civilizing mission, Indophobia infiltrated popular, journalistic, political and academic thought.
Barbara Crossette, who authored the piece, formerly worked at the New York Times, a publication which has devoted entire editorials to its briskly exasperated civilizing mission vis-a-vis India.
In "To the Person Sitting in Darkness," an essay published in the North American Review in 1901, Twain exposes the rhetoric of moral and racial uplift -- "white man's burden," civilizing mission" -- to the reality of imperialist violence being perpetrated by Western nations in places like South Africa, China, Cuba, and the Philippines.
Once I began teaching, I realized that this school is no more a "civilizing mission" than any other high school.
Given the genocidal result of Spanish "civilization," they began to question the idea of a civilizing mission.
"We are living through the endtimes of the civilizing mission.
The British regarded long-term occupation as an inherent part of their self-appointed "civilizing mission".
