In The Poisonwood Bible, what attitudes about indigenous people are harbored by whites in the 1960's and even today?What can industrialized people...

In The Poisonwood Bible, the whites
who enter the Congo see the indigenous people as uncivilized heathens.  When the Price
family arrives in the village of Kilanga, the villagers welcome them by singing their
version of Christian hymns.  Nathan Price is appalled by the fact that many of the women
are bare-chested, and in a later sermon he preaches about the sins of nakedness.  Nathan
does not recognize or respect the customs of the villagers and instead makes them feel
like their way of life is uncivilized.  Because Nathan continually berates them, the
villagers stop attending church, and Nathan has to bribe them with food to get their
attention.  Nathan becomes obsessed with his mission to convert the villagers because he
thinks that they need his religion in order to be saved.  Although the citizens of the
Congo have gained independence from Belgium, the whites still think that the indigenous
people cannot look after their own affairs.