Upon arrival in India the English found themselves faced with many new wonders of the East. They described the fruits of Hinduism as: poverty, national ignorance, idolatry, banditry, barbarism, murder, pantheism, human sacrifice, polytheism and animal worship. Many of these ideas were foreign to the English and were very much the opposite of British norms and Christian values. The English thought that civilization was very important and that the natives were not civilized in any way. The West or "the West" has attempted to westernize many distinctively Indian traditions. For example, the education system in India has changed and become a very British education system; this then caused a class divide in India, similar to that of Britain. During this period (King R. 2005) Western authority was evident not only on a political and economic level but also on a cultural level, consequently having “an inevitable impact on traditional beliefs and practices in non-Western countries”.