In February 1899 Rudyard Kipling wrote the "The White Man's
Burden". In this poem Kipling urged the U.S. to take up the "burden" of empire, as had Britain and other European nations. He wrote the famous poem "The White Man's Burden", to encourage the untied states to impose colonial rule in the philippines. While recognizing the unpopularity of foreign rule, Kipling considered it a duty to bring order to colonial lands and serve subject people. Kipling defined 'The White Man's Burden', as the duty of European and Euro-American people to bring oder and enlightenment to distance lands.
Burden". In this poem Kipling urged the U.S. to take up the "burden" of empire, as had Britain and other European nations. He wrote the famous poem "The White Man's Burden", to encourage the untied states to impose colonial rule in the philippines. While recognizing the unpopularity of foreign rule, Kipling considered it a duty to bring order to colonial lands and serve subject people. Kipling defined 'The White Man's Burden', as the duty of European and Euro-American people to bring oder and enlightenment to distance lands.
The term "The White Man's Burden" can be interpreted simply as racist, or taken as a metaphor foe a condescending view of non-Western national culture and economic traditions, identified as a sense of European ascendancy which has been called "cultural imperialism". During European and American imperialism, "The White Man's Burden", was often used as a justification for expansion and annexation.
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The poem white mans burden contains an exhortation to Americans to pick up the burden of Imperialism and to take over from Spain the rule of the Philippine Islands, which the United States had just captured in the Spanish-American War. Many Americans intensely disliked the idea of an American empire. Yet even with all this said in defense of imperial endeavor, there is something radically wrong with Kipling’s view of Empire. For one thing, it has often been said that people would rather be ruled badly by themselves than well by others. In this light, Empire is really little more than an impertinence, and when the British realized that, after World War II, they quietly dropped their imperial pretensions.