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How did the "white man's burden" contribute to the spread of imperialism in africa?

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Europeans felt it was their duty to educate native peoples in undeveloped countries.

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Kipling's "white man's burden" inspired people in the west. The people in the United States felt that it was their duty to educate the people of underdeveloped countries like Africa, and thus, also effected into the spread of impearalism in Africa
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