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How are the ideas of assimilation and White Man's Burden connected? Explain.

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The primary meaning behind White Man’s Burden is that white people were “burdened” with the responsibility to “educate” and “civilize” the non-white people. It essentially justified imperialism for the white people taking control over non-whites (colonial territories). This can be connected directly to ideas of assimilation in the sense that by this ideology, the white people wanted to repress the cultures of the non-whites in order to assert their own upon them.
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