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    White Mughals‚ the true carriers of “white men’s” burden 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. - Rudyard Kipling Although the British directly ruled India for only 90 years‚ British imperialism in India had tremendous impact on many levels of the society. The British brought with them Western

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    "White Man ’s Burden" The movie we watched in class was called "White Man ’s Burden." According to some sociologists the white man ’s burden is an unwanted burden that white men‚ who are in the upper part of society‚ must bring the minority classes up to their status. For example‚ if it were applied today white folks would have to help bring black folks up into a higher class. While this theory was used many years ago‚ it is still in consideration today. This movie took a very unique approach

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    of minority races and a feeling of superiority to whites was still common. While not everyone had this beliefs‚ it still was ever-present in literally devices. Most surprisingly‚ it even made an appearance in the James Bond book series‚ a series that remains renowned in today’s world. “White Man’s Burden” glorifies Kipling’s admiration of colonization and white superiority through Fleming’s Goldfinger because of the latter’s idealization of the white race‚ however‚ it also was largely negatively received

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    372). Some would even regard white-collar crimes as being more brutal than violent crimes. The actions of a few powerful executives and corrupt businessmen can affect the lives of the masses. Unfortunately‚ almost everyone is susceptible to falling prey to these kinds of crimes‚

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    Draft One In the poem‚ “The White Man’s Burden‚” Rudyard Kipling explicitly writes about the deterioration of society as a union. The metaphor in line two suggests that the white men have to “wait in heavy harness‚” (Kipling 5) due to the fact that these “strangers” are weighing down‚ or burdening‚ the “worth” of the whites. Kipling persists on labeling the white men as higher up than the natives‚ whom he referred to as the “fluttered folk and wild” (Kipling 6). The strangers in this society

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    Response to The New White Man’s Burden In the article "The New White Man’s Burden‚" Anthony Arnove talks about the parallels between the United States reason for the current war in Iraq and the United States occupation of the Philippines in 1898. The author draws theses parallels because he wants the reader to see for themselves how similar the experience in Iraq was played out to how the experience in the Philippines was played out. The main point that Anthony Arnove is making is that the government

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    The White Man’s Burden: Australia and the Stolen Generation. ”TAKE up the White Man’s burden - Send forth the best ye breed- Go bind your sons to exile‚ To serve your captives need;” Those are the words of Rudyard Kipling that are meant to describe the back then ubiquitous way of thinking that was called “The white man’s burden”. It is an ideology that dictates that it is the moral obligation of the white man to better the lives of the “coloured“ people of the world whether they wanted it

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    He then continued with “To seek another’s profit‚ and work another’s gain.” This defined the relationship between the “white man” and “other man.” The white man gets the profit while those who worked must grow up and understand no matter how hard they work‚ they may never earn the life they might have predicted. Kipling’s intended his poem to show the U.S. to take up the “burden” of empire like the European nations had done and described the affliction by justifying

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    the ways of the white man. Archival photographs and clips‚ newspaper accounts‚ journals‚ personal recollections‚ and commentary by historians relate the particulars of this era in American History and its ultimate demise. ~ Rose of Sharon Winter‚ All Movie Guide In 1875‚ Captain Richard Pratt began an ambitious experiment that involved teaching Indians in Florida to read and write English‚ putting them in uniforms and drilling them like soldiers. "Kill the Indian and save the man‚" was Pratt’s motto

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    period is distinguished by an unprecedented pursuit of what has been termed "empire for empire’s sake‚" aggressive competition for overseas territorial acquisitions and the emergence in colonizing . 2. Define the white man’s burden and the scramble for Africa? The white man’s burden was a term used to describe when the Europeans decided to colonize Africa and then went on to spread the Christian religion and spread the idea of democracy to the heathens of the African continent. The Scramble for

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