The data this produced was used for military and colonial purposes, to invade countries, to subdue and control indigenous people; and sometimes to portray these people as backwards, barbaric, less than human, and not able to be part of a modern, western, civilisation.
This prompted anti-Christian edicts, and in 1858, a French invasion of Vietnam was mounted, ostensibly to protect Catholicism, but in reality for colonial purposes.
Hai-Ting Chinn as Fa Mu Lan, Allison Easter as Nana Yaa Asantewa, Miki Yamashita as Sieh King King and Jacqueline Patricia Howell as Ms. Shakur projected determination; Walt Frasier, as the all-purpose colonial villain, reached up to countertenor range with appropriate craven boorishness.
The 1956 constitution prescribed the use of English (the administrative language during the colonial period) for official purposes for 20 years, and the 1962 constitution made that use indefinite.
Animals have been used for medicinal purposes since colonial times in Brazil [ 11] and they still play a significant role in current folk healing practices.
But, whatever the system, the fundamental purpose of colonial instruction was the training of indigenous subaltern cadres clerks, interpreters, teachers, nurses, medical assistants, workers, and so forth all indispensable to colonial administration, businesses, and other undertakings.
CHARLESTON, S.C. -- When the Dock Street Theater opened here in February 1736, it was ahead of the Colonial curve: "the first purpose-built theater building in America," according to publicity materials of the Spoleto Festival USA (though some scholars see the history differently).
Long before Disney, white American popular culture mobilized myths about Pocahontas to serve purposes ranging from colonial conquest to Civil War, and from racial segregation to white supremacy.
There's the standard argument, almost playing the devil's advocate, that it's necessary to keep these colonial depictions "for an educational purpose".
The idea of saving souls was embedded in the Charter of Massachusetts Bay, putting a gloss of missionary purpose on the original Colonial project.
France "is very late in confronting the truth about its colonial history," he said, but the purpose of his museum "is to tell the story of immigration".
