WORLD 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: -"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: -the alleged duty of white colonizers to care for nonwhite Indigenous subjects in their colonial possessions.

Detailed explanation-4: -According to the poem, what is the “white man’s burden"? The white man’s burden, according to the poem, is to civilize those deemed uncivilized by ruling them.

Detailed explanation-5: -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.