How did ideas about national identity change in the United States in response to involvement in the Spanish - American War and the foreign policies that followed it?

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The ideas about national identity changed in the United States in response to involvement in the Spanish - American War and the foreign policies that followed it in that many voices in the United States supported the idea of imperialism and expansionism.

English author Rudyard Kipling exposed these ideas in his poem "White Men's Burden," which referred that whites had the obligation to illustrate or educated native Indians considered primitive people. Many people thought they were racially superior to native people in other regions.

Let's have in mind that after winning the Spanish-American War, the United States kept control of Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines.