what is the meaning of take up the white man burden pome i have to translat it?

Question

my teacher gave me this and told me to translat it

Answer 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. Published in the February, 1899 issue of McClure’s Magazine, the poem coincided with the beginning of the Philippine-American War and U.S. Senate ratification of the treaty that placed Puerto Rico, Guam, Cuba, and the Philippines under American control. Theodore Roosevelt, soon to become vice-president and then president, copied the poem and sent it to his friend, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, commenting that it was “rather poor poetry, but good sense from the expansion point of view.” Not everyone was as favorably impressed as Roosevelt. The racialized notion of the “White Man’s burden” became a euphemism for imperialism, and many anti-imperialists couched their opposition in reaction to the phrase.

Answer 2

Kipling was a poet who expressed the smugness of the British during their time of empire--"the sun never sets on the British Empire." They felt the British were some kind of super-race, to have such a wonderful empire. And, they felt that it was their duty to help all the poor non-British peoples and bring them up to the British level. So, when the US--with a people whose race was much like the British, although the British still felt superior--looked like it, too, might be responsible for some non-Brits, Kipling want to encourage it to feel the same, kind of condescending and we-know-what's-best-for-you.