Read this excerpt from Rudyard Kipling's poem "The White Man's Burden and
then answer the question that follows:
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 walt, in heavy hamess,
On fluttered folk and wild -
Your new-caught sullen peoples,
Half devil and half child.
Take up the White Man's burden -
In patience to abide,
To veil the threat of terror
And check the show of pride;
By open speech and simple,
An hundred times made plain,
To seek another's profit
And work another's gain.1
According to the poem, how did the imperial powers justify the colonization
of African and Asian nations?