Editing Scouting (section)

==Influence on society==
After the origins of the Scout in the early 1900s, some nations' programs have taken part in social movements such as the nationalist [[Indian independence movement|resistance movements in India]]. Although Scouts was sometimes introduced in Africa by imperial officials as a way to strengthen their rule, the Scout principles helped to challenge the legitimacy of [[imperialism]]. Likewise, African Scouts used the Scout Law's principle that a Scout is a brother to all other Scouts to collectively claim full citizenship.<ref name="movement">{{cite web |last=Foster |first=Rev. Michael |year=2001 |url=http://www.netpages.free-online.co.uk/sha/crisis.htm |title=The Growing Crisis in the Scout Movement |work=Scout History |publisher=Scout History Association |access-date=December 9, 2006}}</ref><ref name="britimperialism">{{cite web |last=Parsons |first=Timothy |url=http://www.ohioswallow.com/book/0821415956 |title=Race, Resistance, and the Boy Scout Movement in British Colonial Africa |publisher=Ohio University Press and Swallow Press |access-date=December 25, 2006}}</ref>