(A) The desire to compete with European empires
(B) ** White Man’s Burden
(C) The need for more natural resources
(D) The need for more markets
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Concept note-1: -Although Kipling’s poem mixed exhortation to empire with sober warnings of the costs involved, imperialists within the United States latched onto the phrase “white man’s burden” as a euphemism for imperialism that seemed to justify the policy as a noble enterprise.
Concept note-2: -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.
Concept note-3: -Conquest in the poem is not portrayed as a way for the white race to gain individual or national wealth or power. Instead, the speaker defines white imperialism and colonialism in moral terms, as a “burden” that the white race must take up in order to help the non-white races develop civilization.
Concept note-4: -a phrase that was used mainly in the 19th century to express the idea, now considered offensive, that European countries had a duty to control countries and organizations in parts of the world with less money, education or technology than Europe.