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“The White Man's Burden” is a poem written by Rudyard Kipling. It tells about the role of the white man and his ungrateful and altruistic "obligation" to exercise dominion over the so-called "inferior races". According to him, bringing civilization and colonization to the peoples of the third world is a divine mandate, but it has a huge cost and represents a real burden for the white man (hence the title of the poem).
Rudyard Kipling’s poem the ‘White Man’s burden is replete with numerous themes related to the political conditions of the Nineteenth century. The ‘white man’ was envisaged to be racially superior, modern and imperialistic. Kipling’s poem has been analyzed by social historians as a consequence of Social Darwinism, a theory that emerged during the first half of the nineteenth century. The poem is presented as a justification of colonialism, exploitation, and domination of the colonialism. The domination of black ethnographic cultures by the white-skinned Europeans brought out the idea of emancipation of the racially inferior, which means that the white man has assumed the responsibility of introducing civilization to the uncivilized peoples of Asia and Africa. The concept of racial supremacy gained much popularity during the latter half of the twentieth century when imperialism and colonialism reached its heights. The white man’s supremacy over the ‘inferior’ races was confirmed by the German theory of Aryan supremacy, which justified their conquests, expansions and the extermination of millions, who fit into the category of racially inferior.
Further Explanation-
Rudyard Kipling’s literary rhetoric reflects the colonial supremacy of the white over the colonized ‘inferior’ populations. His work, ‘The White Man’s burden’ reflects the events between the United States and its policy of imperialism, and how it affected the population of the Philippines. The United States colonized the Philippines under the garb of moral responsibility to civilize the wild population, and organize them within a disciplined societal structure. In reality, the resources of the Philippines would be crucial for the economic expansion of the United States and provide it with a market for finished goods. Also, the ports of the Philippines would give them access to the trade routes of the Pacific. The lines of the poem, ‘Your new caught sullen peoples, half- the devil and half child’ express the savage nature and the need for the supreme race to civilize them.
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Answer Details-
Grade- High School
Chapter- Literary texts in imperialism
Subject- History
Keywords-
Imperialism, racial supremacy, social Darwinism, colonialism. Conquest of the Philippines, moral responsibility for the emancipation of the inferior race
