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QUESTION 5

Excerpt from the Rudyard Kipling Poem "White Man's Burden
Take up the White Man's burden-
Send forth the best ye breed-
Go send your sons to exile
To serve your captives' need
To wait in heavy harness
On fluttered folk and wild-
Your new-caught, sullen peoples,
Half devil and half child
Take up the White Man's burden
Interpret the poem above. Which of the following is represented in regards to colonies and colonized people?
A. Ethnocentric thoughts
B. Racism
C. Encouragement to engage in imperialist actions
D. All of the above

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The mans burden was to go and send his songs to exile and on fluttered folk and wild the answer is b racism
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