The MissionCulture is the expression of the creativity of a people - everything they do that is distinctly theirs: language, music, art, religion, healing, agriculture, the style of cooking and the institutions that govern social life. Suppressing culture means shooting someone in the heart. Such a conquest is more complete than a massacre. "We have seen that colonization kills the colonized materially. It must be added that it kills them spiritually. Colonization distorts relationships, destroys and petrifies institutions, and corrupts... both the colonizers and the colonized." it is whether the Jesuits were guilty of cultural genocide in their interactions with Native Americans. I believe that under the definition of cultural genocide the Jesuits were guilty but also had a positive impact on the Native Americans. They gave the Guannini a home and protected them from slavery. The community represented in The Mission was of common benefit. The Guanninis were able to feed and support themselves so they could live a rather happy and prosperous life. I believe it says in the film that the San Carlos mission earned almost £14.xxx from exporting some of its goods. The Jesuits were guilty because they took their beliefs (which were pagan) and replaced them with those of the Bible. When the Cardinal decides that the Guanninis must leave the mission (the Spanish and Portuguese go what they want) the Guanninis cannot understand why God wanted them to leave and feel betrayed. They think it's not like that. right that God could just leave them and that they should never have trusted the Jesuits. However, the Guanninis were not forced to make the decision to convert. From what we were shown in the film, their decision to convert was not forced by social forces or implicit threats from more powerful entities. They could have proceeded as before without much resistance. I believe the reason the Guanninis chose to convert to Christianity was that they were very intrigued by the technology brought by Father Gabriel. Initially the flute played an initial role in this. Father Gabriel may have done this on purpose to convince Guannini to make him seem like a more spiritually powerful being.