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The author of the poem, "White Man’s Burden", was a British novelist and poet. How do you think his background as a citizen of the British empire (an empire that at one point had colonized approximately 25% of the world) might have influenced his writing of this poem and creation of the phrase - "White Man’s Burden"?

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The poem White Man's Burden is written by Rudyard Kipling

Explanation:

Rudyard Kipling, a British poet, justifies the Euro-centric idea of racial supremacy and Imperialist ideology of civilizing the non white race in his peom in 1899. The moral obligation of colonizers or the white men is to take the burden of civilizing the barbaric and undeveloped world of the colonies known as "White Man's Burden". It is a mission that white man must embark upon that has received a lot of criticism for its racist approach.

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