BRITISH COLONIAL ATTITUDE

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Margaret L

 

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July 20, 2014

 

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University

 

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It was written in 1899 and is actually about the U.S conquest of the Spanish colonies, among them the Philippines. The White Man's Burden Take up the White Man's burden-- Send forth the best ye breed-- Go bind your sons to exile To serve your captives' need; To wait in heavy harness, On fluttered folk and wild-- Your new-caught, sullen peoples, Half-devil and half-child...
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The poem has a Eurocentric view of the world, meaning that the European race has a duty to educate and culturally develop people from other ethnic groups until they can adapt to the new, western society. The poem clearly looks down on any other culture than the modern, western one. In other words, it was the white, civilized and superior Europeans' obligation to save the uncivilized native population in their colonies from barbarism This "duty" is also reflected in the title of the poem, The White Man's Burden...
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