noncivilized

On the first dimension, it is clear that Japan faced an uphill battle from the start given its status in Western eyes as a "noncivilized" nation and the real possibility of outright colonization by a Western power, dire conditions that Italy never faced.

Disseminating institutions able to channel social demands in such a way that they are at the same time orderly, readable, and manageable by the center is part of a project that aims at making obscure borderlands (be they noncivilized states or areas within states that escape government) visible, transparent, and simplified.

Bush's state feminism draws xenophobic lines between "the people" and "the ethnics," "us" and "them," primitives and moderns, the very same distinctions that western empires have traditionally used to define so-called civilized from noncivilized people.

For Chicanas, the consideration of the ideological constructions of the "noncivilized" dark woman brings into view a most sobering reference point: the overwhelmingly majority of the workers in maquiladoras, for example, are mestizas who have been forcefully subjected not only to the described processes (of monotonous and storelike work and subordination] but to many others that await disentanglement.

In any case, the concept of a noncivilized Highlands, with a culture alien and inimical to central government, remained influential, and a desire to evangelize the "popish parts" inspired the foundation of modern missionary activity in the Highlands soon after the reestablishment of Presbyterianism in Scotland in 1690.