The "White Man's Burden"

What?

• The "White Man's Burden" was a poem written by Rudyard Kipling
• White man's job to transport enlightenment ideas 
• to less developed lands- Africa and Asia
• White man- European and Euro-American peoples

Effects/Significance

• Served as justification for European imperial expansion
• Gave foreigners opportunity to make an economic and
• social impact on the world