A Mission station is a location for missionary work. Historically, Christian missions would bring people into the 'fold', to teach 'natives' Western culture. Modern missionaries by contrast try to integrate themselves into local communities. A missionary is a propagator of religion, often an evangelist or other representative of a religious community who works among those outside of that community. ... Since the Lausanne Congress of 1974, a widely-accepted definition of a Christian mission has been to form a viable indigenous church-planting movement. ... Western Culture refers to the culture that has developed in the Western world. ...

In some colonies, mission stations became a focus of settlement for displaced or formerly nomadic people. Missions were a useful tool in the colonial acquisition of land, the suppression of local culture, and the training of servants. Christian missionaries were complicit or co-opted in this role. Conditions on some mission stations have been likened to concentration camps, despite the stated good intentions of missionaries. In politics and in history, a colony is a territory under the immediate political control of a geographically-distant state (or city, in ancient times). ... Since the Lausanne Congress of 1974, a widely-accepted definition of a Christian mission has been to form a viable indigenous church-planting movement. ... The video game console is called the Sega Nomad. ... The term Christian means belonging to Christ and is derived from the Greek noun Χριστός Khristós which means anointed one, which is itself a translation of the Hebrew word Moshiach (Hebrew: משיח, also written Messiah), (and in Arabic it is pronounced Maseeh مسيح). Christian is primarily an adjective, describing an object associated... A concentration camp is a large detention center created for political opponents, aliens, specific ethnic or religious groups, civilians of a critical war-zone, or other groups of people, often during a war. ...

In modern missionary doctrines, mission stations are deprecated, because they were historically ineffective. Mission stations normally created disaffected individual converts, often seen as an outcast by their family and culture. In many cases, the only source of converts to a mission station were the orphans raised in the station's orphanage. Also, many misison station's converts were so alienated from surrounding cultures that they were unable to get work outside the mission station, let alone act as cultural ambassadors for christianity. In some cases, such "mission station christians" actively impeded Christian conversion in schools and orphanages in order to continue their own incomes. (See more information about modern missionary doctrines.) Since the Lausanne Congress of 1974, a widely-accepted definition of a Christian mission has been to form a viable indigenous church-planting movement. ...

In rural Australia, many missions have become remote localities or ghettoes on the edges of towns which are home to local Aborigines. The word may be seen as derogatory when used in a derogatory or racist way. A ghetto is an area where people from a specific ethnic background or united in a given culture or religion live as a group, voluntarily or involuntarily, in milder or stricter seclusion. ... Australian Aborigines are the main indigenous people of Australia. ...