Indledning
"The White Man's Burden" presents the conquering of non-white races as white individuals' benevolent good obligation. The reference in the title to the "The White Man's Burden" is about the challenges "The white man" faces during their attempts to civilize the natives and therefore the burden.
The United States was at the time trying to colonize and take control of the Philippines. The insinuation, of course, was that the empire did not exist for the benefit of Britain itself, but for primitive peoples with guidance to eventually become civilized and Christianized.
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Uddrag
His belief in how this colonialism can be compared to a civilization mission that will ultimately benefit the colonized natives "The Brown Man's Burden" is an immediate intrigue and completely opposite to this poem, which seems amusing and ironic as he scrutinizes "The White Man's Burden" by Rudyard Kipling.
He is unmistakably against their activities and particularly their techniques and values and therefrom methods.
Rather than Kipling's poem, which delineates the radical development power that legitimizes expansionism, this poem contends for the imperialist predominance of imperialism over others.
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