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What do you mean by white means burden theroy​

Answer 1

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“The White Man's Burden: The United States and the Philippine Islands” (1899), by Rudyard Kipling, is a poem about the Philippine–American War (1899–1902), which exhorts the United States to assume colonial control of the Filipino people and their country.

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Answer 2

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Kipling's poem 'The White Man's Burden' was originally published in February of 1899, under the title, 'An Address to the United States'.

But why would a British writer publish a poem specifically for the United States? In 1898, the United States went to war with Spain as a result of a revolution in Cuba. On the surface, it looked like the United States merely wanted to help Cuba gain its independence from Spain. But by the end of the Spanish-American War, this was obviously not the case. As the winner of the war, the United States controlled the Cuban government and also walked away with the rights to Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines. After decades of isolationism, the United States had finally become an imperialist country.

'The White Man's Burden' was meant to both encourage and warn the United States. In Kipling's view, imperialism was not just a way for countries to grab power; it was also a form of humanitarianism, a way to help less fortunate people around the world. Kipling's poem explained that as an advanced nation, the United States was responsible for educating and civilizing the native peoples it now controlled. This responsibility was the White Man's burden.

The phrase White Man can be taken two different ways. Literally, the White Man describes people who are Caucasian. In the early 20th century, many Americans believed in the concept of social Darwinism, where certain people were superior to others based on their color and race. The phrase White Man can also be taken figuratively. Around the time the poem was published, people who were considered to be good or pure were called White Men.

Although Kipling's poem emphasized the goodness of imperialism and the White Man's burden, he also told the United States that this burden came with a price. The native people they ruled over would be resistant. Controlling and civilizing these places would also require significant manpower and, in many instances, would lead to deaths.