Answer:For Kipling, the white man’s burden is the responsibility of Europe’s imperial adventurers to tread forth into the savage, untamed wilderness and bring its peoples and resources to submission (and I use these words (savage, untamed) in the sense that Kipling himself would have intended, not as a reflection of my own imperialist attitude). On the one hand, it is true that Kipling was an imperial apologist, and his poem reflected a general cultural superiority. This is evidenced, for example, when he calls upon the reader to take up the white man’s burden and flutter to the wild, where there will be
