THIS MAY SURPRISE SOME OF YOU, but we live in a Christian culture. What I mean is that since the preponderance of cultural influences has come down to us from European early settlers, and since those early settlers inflicted their values on the “benighted” cultures they encountered (“benighted,” from the Old English, meaning “anyone darker than myself”), those inflicted values have gained ascendancy.
Oh European settlers definitely tried to overturn “benighted” cultures. For example, the Spanish settlers tried to integrate Native Americans into Christianity through a system of slavery called the encomienda system.
