单词 | white man's burden |
释义 | white man's burdenThe task, believed by white colonizers to be incumbent upon them, of imposing Western civilization on the black inhabitants of European colonies.He blamed the white man who, in the name of civilization and ‘the white man's burden,’ impoverished many peoples in the world....
From Rudyard Kipling's The White Man's Burden (1899) See parent entry: white |
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