WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -In February 1899, British novelist and poet Rudyard Kipling wrote a poem entitled “The White Man’s Burden: The United States and The Philippine Islands.” In this poem, Kipling urged the U.S. to take up the “burden” of empire, as had Britain and other European nations.

Detailed explanation-2: -"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-3: -In 1899, Rudyard Kipling, a famed English poet, had his poem “The White Man’s Burden” published in McClure’s, a monthly magazine popular at the turn of the 20th century.

Detailed explanation-4: -“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-5: -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.