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What does the phrase \White Man’s Burden, \coined by Kipling, refer to?
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Britain’s manifest destiny to colonize the world
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the moral responsibility to bring civilization and Christianity to the peoples of the world
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the British need to improve technology and transportation in other parts of the world
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the importance of solving economic and social problems in England before tackling the world’s problems
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -noun. : a duty formerly asserted by white people to manage the affairs of nonwhite people whom they believed to be less developed.
Detailed explanation-2: -It entered English usage with English writer Rudyard Kipling’s 1899 published poem of the same title. The phrase refers to the purported historical task of white societies to control and civilize non-white societies through colonial subjugation.
Detailed explanation-3: -"The White Man’s Burden” (1899), by Rudyard Kipling, is a poem about the Philippine–American War (1899–1902) that exhorts the United States to assume colonial control of the Filipino people and their country.
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