Rudyard Kipling wrote in 1899 a poem called "The White Man's Burden" in which he invites the United States to assume colonial control of Philippine during the Philippine–American War that took place between the years 1899 and 1902.
According to the imperialist interpretation of this poem, Kipling argues that the white man has the moral obligation to rule the non-white peoples of the Earth, such as native people of Africa and Asia, encouraging their economic, cultural, and social progress, as well as their civilization and Christianization through colonialism. Since, in his opinion, they were primitive peoples, incapable of self-government and thus, they needed the guidance of the white man.
