Western education seemed to have a big impact on the way people acted. Many people embraced European culture, dressing in European clothes, speaking French and English, building "European" houses, getting married in long white gowns and many other European ways of living. Education in western India was a bit different. With their new intelligence they wanted a new Indian culture free of underage marriage, caste, discrimination against women and Hinduism. The western education gave the Indian culture the inspiration it needed to change.
Throughout the twentieth century, Christianity seemed to have spread worldwide. Around 10,000 missionaries had descended on Africa by 1910, and by 1960 almost 50 million Africans became Christians. Protective charms and medicines started to be used as well as medicine men. Western education influenced every type of person in different ways. It helped to shape the way our world is today.
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