COLONIALISM AND IMPERIALISM
THE AGE OF IMPERIALISM 1870 1914
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Question
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The nineteenth-century phrase, “the white man’s burden, “ reflects the idea that
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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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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.
Detailed explanation-2: -noun. : a duty formerly asserted by white people to manage the affairs of nonwhite people whom they believed to be less developed.
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