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The first document was published by the English writer Rudyard Kipling. He published a famous poem called “White Man’s Burden” in 1899 which came to represent the European sense of superiority over the indigenous peoples. The subtitle of this poem is “The United States and the Philippine Islands.” This is because this is what the poem mainly talks about. This poem is about Kipling’s thoughts about imperialism during 1899. Kipling thinks that imperialism is a good venture that the United States should have. He says things like “Take up the White Man’s burden” and “To serve your captives’ need.” By saying these things it shows how Kipling feels and how he thinks that the United States should rule over the Philippines and help them
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Kipling would send the American society’s best young men that they had to offer, while also forcing the American beliefs and values to the Philippine people. He believed he could make the Philippines very similar to the Americans that they could become part of the American Empire that he wanted to create. E.D. Morel in response to Kipling’s poem had different thoughts about the issue. While working for a Liverpool shipping firm, he uncovered a multitude of abuses in the administration of King Leopold’s Congo Free State. He was not able to motivate his employer to take measures, which would end up damaging the business. After this he was forced to resign, and took up the cause of the Congo full-time as a journalist. In 1920, just 12 years after the Congo had passed from Leopold’s personal jurisdiction to Belgian colony, Morel then published a piece called “The Black Man’s Burden.” This was a farce of the title of Rudyard Kipling’s poem, “White Man’s Burden.” …show more content…
They would label them amongst the livestock, money, different farms, and anything else that people would think was trouble. Kipling throughout the poem would humiliate the people who were not white. He states that they should be taught the right way to live as if they did not know how to live simply because of the different skin tone, he also says that they were uncivilized people just because they did not appear white. The whites were always claimed as the more important ones, which lead them to think that they should control over the colored people along with imperialistic control. Kipling believes that the whites are better and should get to pretty much enslave the colored. Because everyone believed that the whites were better lead them to think that they have a higher ranking than the colored and that they are far more important, and that a white man's life is more valuable than that of a

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