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white man's burden

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The supposed or presumed responsibility of white people to govern and impart their culture to nonwhite people, often advanced as a justification for European colonialism.

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  • noun The supposed responsibility of European people to govern and care for their colonial subjects

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  • noun the supposed responsibility of the white race to provide care for their non-white subjects

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From “The White Man's Burden,”, a poem by Rudyard Kipling.]

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From the poem The White Man's Burden by Rudyard Kipling.

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