No. 7

#7 What should society do for “uncivilized cultures” like the Sawi?


Society, for one thing, should contrive a stratagem to provide uncivilized cultures like the Sawi with moral knowledge. Society can provide them with moral knowledge by first introducing them to Christianity. It is indeed an arduous task for people to introduce a new religion and to implement a whole new culture within the uncivilized cultures. But despite its difficulties, the society needs to be like “leeches” in bringing them to God. In bringing them so, uncivilized culture could be able to discern right from wrong and therefore be able to become more civilized.

There are, of course, many possible ways in making the uncivilized cultures into a civilized culture. But we as a society have to come in sympathy, and have to be careful not to annihilate their cultures completely. It is true that the uncivilized cultures are civilized in their own way, but I believe that it is our task to deprive them from their falsehood of thoughts and actions.