AMERICAN IMPERIALISM 1890 1919
AMERICAN IMPERIALISM
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What is the “White Man’s Burden”?
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A belief in “cultural superiority”
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A philosophy related to Manifest Destiny
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Taft’s foreign policy approach
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A belief in white privilege
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-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.
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