The White Man's Burden Comments

This is a Christian masterpiece!

While the phrase 'Take up the white man's burden' is repeated effectively, there is something patronizing and condescending about it. Especially when he adds that the superior white man has to contend with, 'Your new-caught sullen peoples/ Half devil and half child'. This is not flattering to the races which Britain colonized. far from it.

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Well, you can't say it isn't well written. It's comforting to know this same guy wrote Gunga Din, in which he admits in the end, despite the fact that Gunga Din was a slave man for the army, and the author had tendencies to beat him savagely, Gunga Din was still a better man.