Question

Why might the White Man's Burden be an important historical document? (How might this document help historians better understand this time period?)

Answer 1

"The White Man's Burden" is a poem by the British Victorian poet and novelist Rudyard Kipling. While he originally wrote the poem to celebrate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897, Kipling revised it in 1899 to exhort the American people to conquer and rule the Philippines

Answer 2

It was worth it because was a motivation tool for white people to help the natives advance in their behaviors and their habits.

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