White Man's Burden Argument

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The arguments of Rudyard Kipling, Lugard, and Ferry all share the same main idea. This idea is that the “white man” are the superior race compared to all other peoples. Moreover, in Kipling’s poem, “The White Man’s Burden” he writes, “To serve your captive’s need…Your new-caught sullen peoples,” (4 and 7). This supports idea that the obligation of white men is to advise and educate “the new-caught sullen peoples” meaning the natives of Africa and Asia on the ideas of Christianity, and other European ideologies. This is the same idea that Kipling presents as the “white man’s burden.”

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