white man's burden

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The supposed responsibility of European people to govern and care for their colonial subjects
{i} expected responsibility of white people Europeans to rule and impose their apparently advanced civilization and culture to nonwhite people
The supposed or presumed responsibility of white people to govern and impart their culture to nonwhite people, often advanced as a justification for European colonialism
the supposed responsibility of the white race to take of their non-white subjects
The White Man's Burden
famous poem about imperialism (by Rudyard Kipling); euphemism for imperialism (used to describe white man's self-imposed "duty" to civilize undeveloped countries)
white man's burden

    Hyphenation

    White man's bur·den

    Turkish pronunciation

    hwayt mänz bırdın

    Pronunciation

    /ˈhwīt ˈmanz ˈbərdən/ /ˈhwaɪt ˈmænz ˈbɜrdən/

    Etymology

    () From the poem The White Man's Burden by Rudyard Kipling
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