LITERATURE QUESTIONS
CULTURAL AND LITERARY (18TH 19TH) CENTURIES
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The pressure of conforming to preexisting social conventions
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The burden of white colonizers who are forced to learn to live in new lands
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The Eurocentric idea that the colonizer has a social responsibility to civilize other nations
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The concept that all white men do not share the same imperial duties
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Detailed explanation-1: -Kipling was a white supremascist and wrote “The White Man’s Burden” urging the United States to take up the “burden” of civilizing “savage peoples” alongside other European powers. It was written in support of America’s attempt to annex the Philippines.
Detailed explanation-2: -The White Man’s Burden is a poem by the British Victorian poet and novelist Rudyard Kipling. While he originally wrote the poem to celebrate Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee in 1897, Kipling revised it in 1899 to exhort the American people to conquer and rule the Philippines.
Detailed explanation-3: -Kipling highlights this in the second stanza with “To seek another’s profit, And work another’s gain”3, explaining that colonists are using the indigenous people’s economic source for the benefit of the colonizing state.