WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -"The White Man’s Burden” (1899), by Rudyard Kipling, is a poem about the Philippine–American War (1899–1902) that exhorts the United States to assume colonial control of the Filipino people and their country.

Detailed explanation-2: -It entered English usage with English writer Rudyard Kipling’s 1899 published poem of the same title. The phrase refers to the purported historical task of white societies to control and civilize non-white societies through colonial subjugation.

Detailed explanation-3: -The White Man’s Burden is a poem by the British Victorian poet and novelist Rudyard Kipling. While he originally wrote the poem to celebrate Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee in 1897, Kipling revised it in 1899 to exhort the American people to conquer and rule the Philippines.