according to Rudyard Kipling poem's poem, "white man's burden", what is the wh "white man'burden?

Answer 1

The White Man's Burden" is a poem by the English poet Rudyard Kipling. It was originally published in the popular magazine McClure's in 1899, with the subtitle The United States and the Philippine Islands.[1] "The White Man's Burden" was written in regard to the U.S. conquest of the Philippines and other former Spanish colonies.[2] 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 characterization for imperialism that justified the policy as a noble enterprise.[

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Answer 2

OK, Kipling was a man of his times. He saw the world a different way than we do now. The most telling line in the poem is: "Why brought ye us from bondage, our loved Egyptian night?" This is a line from the Old Testament. When Moses led the Hebrews out of slavery in Egypt, they found that life in the desert has harder then they thought, so they turned on Moses. They said that he should have just left us as slaves in Egypt, they were better off. The same idea applies to colonial powers. They wanted to "improve" the cultures they took over. Some changes were for the worse, some for the better. But change is always met with armed resistance. So the British were getting killed by the people they were trying to help. You see the same situation in Iraq today. So many people say "We were better off under Saddam" because the conditions are just so dreadful there right now. And all the world thinks that America did a horrible thing invading Iraq. But the intention was to rid the world of a family that ruled through terror and used chemical weapons on innocent people. But that doesn't matter. "The new caught sullen people, half devil and half child" hate us, "Why brought ye us from bondage, our loved Egyptian night. The "White Man's Burden" is doing what he thinks needs to be done and expecting to be appreciated for it. Joe

Answer 3

The "White Man's Burden" is the history of the white man. The white man is reviled (by some) for all he has done over the course of history. Slavery, War, Murder, Famine, Sin (sloth, envy, etc).

Answer 4

Ruling and caring for the non-white people of the earth, whom God created as inferior to whites. Stop laughing.