white man's burden
noun
the alleged duty of white colonizers to care for nonwhite indigenous subjects in their colonial possessions.
Origin of white man's burden
after a poem of the same title by Rudyard Kipling (1899)
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British Dictionary definitions for white man's burden
White man's burden
noun
the supposed duty of the White race to bring education and Western culture to the non-White inhabitants of their colonies
Cultural definitions for white man's burden
white man's burden
A phrase used to justify European imperialism in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; it is the title of a poem by Rudyard Kipling. The phrase implies that imperialism was motivated by a high-minded desire of whites to uplift people of color.