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Take up the White Man's burden--
Send forth the best ye breed--
Go bind your sons to exile
To serve your captives' need;
To wait in heavy harness,
On fluttered folk and wild--
Your new-caught, sullen peoples,
Half-devil and half-child.
Take up the White Man's burden--
In patience to abide,
To veil the threat of terror
And check the show of pride;
By open speech and simple,
An hundred times made plain
To seek another's profit,
And work another's gain.
Take up the White Man's burden--
The savage wars of peace--
Fill full the mouth of Famine
And bid the sickness cease;
And when your goal is nearest
The end for others sought,
Watch sloth and heathen Folly
Bring all your hopes to nought.
Take up the White Man's burden--
No tawdry rule of kings,
But toil of serf and sweeper--
The tale of common things.
The ports ye shall not enter,
The roads ye shall not tread,
Go mark them with your living,
And mark them with your dead.
Take up the White Man's burden--
And reap his old reward:
The blame of those ye better,
The hate of those ye guard--
The cry of hosts ye humour
(Ah, slowly!) toward the light:--
"Why brought he us from bondage,
Our loved Egyptian night?"
Take up the White Man's burden--
Ye dare not stoop to less--
Nor call too loud on Freedom
To cloke your weariness;
By all ye cry or whisper,
By all ye leave or do,
The silent, sullen peoples
Shall weigh your gods and you.
Take up the White Man's burden--
Have done with childish days--
The lightly proferred laurel,
The easy, ungrudged praise.
Comes now, to search your manhood
Through all the thankless years
Cold, edged with dear-bought wisdom,
The judgment of your peers!
Nicole Dare
"The white man's burden" was a phrase used by European colonial powers to justify their domination and exploitation of non-European territories and peoples. It was based on the idea that it was the duty of Europeans to bring civilization and progress to other cultures that were deemed to be "primitive" or inferior.
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What phrase came to define the idea that white s should help civilize nonwhites?
white mans burden
The black mans burden was for what audience?
The audience for "The Black Man's Burden" include people who have some educational background and the imperialists.
What was another name for white mans burden?
Another name for "white man's burden" was "civilizing mission."
What was another name of the white mans burden?
The civilizing mission
How did the white mans burden contribut to the spread of imperialism in Africa?
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What was the phrase 19th century British foreign policy?
white mans burden
What is the rhyme scheme for white mans burden?
The rhyme scheme for the poem "The White Man's Burden" by Rudyard Kipling is ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH.
What was the white mans burden during the Spanish American War?
A lack of resistance to tropical diseases.
What phrase came to define the idea that whites should help civilize?
white mans burden
What phrases came to define the idea that whites should help civilize nonwhites?
white mans burden
Summary of the white man's burden?
the white mans burden was about the u.s. wanting to improve and continue our growth and militarism so we were number one. And so we would not get our heads chopped off by Russian solders.
How did imperial powers view the African people?
The White mans burden. They believed that it was their responsibility to "Civilize" the African Natives.
