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Instantly the audience rose to its feet and cheered him.”įunny and sad in the same time… But I am glad to have dug up some excellent images: at least there is some documented evidence of the cultures which do not have a concept of body shame, and I hope at least some of these cultures will survive. And when this missionary work had progressed sufficiently to convince the natives of the need for wearing clothes on Sunday, that would mean three hundred and twenty million yards of Manchester cotton cloth yearly. He told the audience that their duty as Christians was to convert these misguided naked savages to Christianity and to the wearing of clothes.

He explained to the audience how many natives there were in the Congo, and the fact that they lived naked. “Russell Nansen records that “Henry Morton Stanley, the rescuer of David Livingstone in the Belgian Congo… from 1847 to 1877… wandered across Africa suffering every hardship but when he went back to England he made a notable speech to the Manchester Chamber of Commerce. But I found an interesting citation at iNaked :

I used to think that the reason why missionaries and colonizers brought the Western clothes to them was because they thought they were doing a “noble” act of culture transmission. Now, many of the indigenous people that got in contact with the outside world wear shorts and T-shirts. Of course, their culture and lifestyle are under threat from the omnipresent Western civilization and other intruding cultures. Nowadays there are also some societies where people know no “shame” of the human body and may live their whole lives stark naked.

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