USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -“The White Man’s Burden” presents the conquering of non-white races as white people’s selfless moral duty. This conquest, according to the poem, is not for personal or national benefit, but rather for the gain of others-specifically, for the gain of the conquered.

Detailed explanation-2: -Because those in Asia, Africa, and parts of the Americas lived different lives, Europeans felt that it was their duty to “civilize” them into western culture and society. This belief was strengthened with literary works such as “The White Man’s Burden” written in 1899 by British novelist and poet Rudyard Kipling.

Detailed explanation-3: -White man’s burden in American English the alleged duty of the White race to care for subject peoples of other races in its colonial possessions. [after a poem of the same title by Rudyard Kipling (1899)]

Detailed explanation-4: -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.