The Akha tribe lives in the North of Tailand. Up to now, the people of Akha have preserved their unique ethnic culture and faith. They are now feeling great pressure from Christian missionaires. The history of missions is long, through the centuries, from crusades to the new world, a political order that always claimed it wasn’t. Always converting and eliminating tribal cultures and often tribal peoples, subjegating smaller groups into the larger ones, assisting colonialization and assimilization. A growth industry on the back of others, following close to the exploitation of resources and lands that the indigenous live on. This parallel situation is very hard for missionaries to admit to. They are woefully ignorant of anything but the polished, carefully selected version of their conquest history. It is quite amazing that anyone denies this political role and goal of missions does not exist, but quite a few still do make this denial. ecer-org.eu/the-akha-people-a-report-by-matthew-mcdaniel/
Posted on: Sat, 04 Oct 2014 22:58:18 +0000
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