(A) ** A belief in “cultural superiority”
(B) A philosophy related to Manifest Destiny
(C) Taft’s foreign policy approach
(D) A belief in white privilege
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Concept note-1: -As Victorian imperial poetry, “The White Man’s Burden” thematically corresponded to Kipling’s belief that the British Empire 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.