Moving out: I was raised Roman Catholic, now atheist, Korean. My boyfriend is white. I am 19 and he is 20.?

The White Man's Burden is a Eurocentric view of the world used to justify imperialism. The term is the name of an 1899 poem by Rudyard Kipling, the sentiments of which give insight into this world view. The first stanza of the Kipling poem reads: Take up the White Man's burden — Send forth the best ye breed — Go, bind 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.

In this view, non-European cultures are seen as child-like as well as demonic, with people of European descent having an obligation to dominate them until they can take their place in the world. The poem was originally published in the popular magazine McClure's in the United States. It was written specifically because after the Spanish-American War, feeling in the US was more isolationist than not.

It was believed that had the U.S. not taken over Spain's position in the Philippines, another foreign power would have moved into the vacuum. Kipling wrote this poem specifically to help sway popular opinion in the U.S., so that a "friendly" western power would hold the strategically important Philippines.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.