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单词 white man's burden
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white man's burden

The 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....
  • We will go out, we will pick up the white man's burden and we will colonise these areas that are not yet under our domination.
  • Even the neocons, for all their viciousness and totalitarian gut instincts, sometimes show signs of taking their white man's burden seriously.
From Rudyard Kipling's The White Man's Burden (1899)
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