Question

Imperialism, Nationalism, and Political Revolutions
Read the following excerpt from British poet Rudyard Kipling's "The White
Man's Burden," written in 1899. What does the excerpt suggest about
European imperialism during the late 19th century?
Take up the White Man's burden-
The savage wars of peace-
Fill full the mouth of Famine
And bid the sickness cease;
And when your goal is nearest
The end for others sought,
Watch sloth and heathen Folly
Bring all your hopes to nought.
- Rudyard Kipling
O A. Europeans believed that foreign peoples would benefit from being
conquered.
B. Europeans believed in helping foreign peoples fight wars against
imperial powers.
O C. Europeans planned to use famine and disease as weapons
against conquered people's
D. Europeans hope to fight in wars to read the world of savage foreigners​

Answer 1

As Victorian imperial poetry, "The White Man's Burden" thematically corresponds to Kipling's belief that the British Empire was the Englishman's "Divine Burden to reign God's Empire on Earth"; and celebrates British colonialism as a mission of civilisation that eventually would benefit the colonised natives