HISTORY
THE AGE OF IMPERIALISM
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Asians and Africans were equal to Europeans.
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Asians and Africans would be grateful for European help
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imperialism was opposed by most Europeans
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Europeans had a responsibility to improve the lives of their colonial people.
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democracy was the best form of government for Asia and Africa.
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Detailed explanation-1: -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. The phrase was first used in a poem by Rudyard Kipling.
Detailed explanation-2: -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.
Detailed explanation-3: -In 1899 Kipling’s poem “The White Man’s Burden” was published (Boehmer 42). Its main theme suggests that it is the “duty” of the White European and North American nations to rule and civilise the “savage” Afro-Asian nations.