Monday, January 14, 2008

the white man's burden

The famous white man's burden was founded by Philippine Republic declared war upon the United States. The U.S. had refused to withdraw its troops following the surrender of Spain and also had refused to recognize the new Republic. also the prase the white man's burden was a phrase used to justify European imperialism in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; it is the title of a poem by Rudyard kipling. The phrase implies that imperialism was motivated by a high-minded desire of whites to uplift people of color. This phrase It was originally published in the popular magazine Mc Clure's in 1899, with the subtitle of The united states and the philippine Islands.

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