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What's does the title "The White Man's Burden" mean ?

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The phrase implies that imperialism was motivated by a high minded desire of whites to uplift people of color.
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A phrase used to justify European imperialism in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; it is the title of a poem by Rudyard Kipling.
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