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"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, British poet, "The White Man's Burden," 1899

The sentiment expressed in the poem excerpt best illustrates which of the following late nineteenth-century justifications for imperialism?

  1. The cultural belief in a "civilizing mission" to reform and govern non-Western societiesCevap
  2. B
    The scientific validation of natural selection as a biological explanation for cultural dominance
  3. C
    The economic necessity of direct territorial annexation to conduct industrial trade
  4. D
    The humanitarian effort to replace chattel slavery with highly compensated indentured contract labor

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The cultural belief in a "civilizing mission" to reform and govern non-Western societies
The correct answer is correct because the poem by Rudyard Kipling frames colonial expansion as a paternalistic duty—a "burden"—to manage and culturally uplift non-Western peoples, reflecting the late nineteenth-century ideology of the "civilizing mission."

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1
Analyze the provided primary source excerpt to identify its main theme.
The text describes colonial rule as a duty ("burden") to serve and manage foreign populations depicted paternalistically as "wild" or needing direction.
Identifying the author's perspective on the relationship between colonizer and colonized is key to recognizing the imperialist rationale.
2
Relate the identified theme to historical justifications for late nineteenth-century imperialism.
The idea of a moral responsibility to govern and civilize foreign peoples aligns directly with the concept of the "civilizing mission."
This matches the historical context of Kipling's writing and the cultural justifications used by imperial powers during this era.

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