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What does the phrase "the white man's burden" refer to?
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What does the phrase "the white man's burden" refer to?

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The white man's burden, according to the poem, is to civilize those deemed uncivilized by ruling them. ... The poem describes the Philippine people as both children and fiends, seemingly unable to properly govern themselves.

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