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Why did the British put forth the theory of white man burden

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White man's burden. A phrase used to justify European imperialism in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; it is the title of a poem by Rudyard Kipling. The phrase implies that imperialism was motivated by a high-minded desire of whites to uplift people of color.

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The White Man's Burden. Kipling's poem, “The White Man's Burden,” was published in McClure's Magazine in 1899. The poem considered white imperialism necessary to civilize the “backward savages” of the colonies.

Answer 2

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As Victorian imperial poetry, "The White Man's Burden" thematically corresponds to Kipling's belief that the British Empire (1583–1945) 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 ...

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