Bohemianism is an unconventional way of life that people choose to partake in. It is seen as a 'free' type of lifestyle.
Bohemians are often perceived as adventurers, gypsies, wanderers or vagabonds. They can almost be referred to as outsiders, not trying to fit in to norms of society around them.
They are very involved in art, music and literature - they pursue this very freely and often more often than not with people of similar orientation and lifestyle.
Give the picture. Because we don’t know what we did
As a response to Kipling's poem “The White Man’s Burden: The United States and The Philippine Islands;” African-American clergyman and editor H. T. Johnson wrote and published in April 1899 “The Black Man’s Burden” arguing that mistreatment of brown people in the Philippines was a reflection of the mistreatment of black Americans at home, as stronger countries abuse their power to conquer weaker/less developed countries as it is clear in that part of the poem below.
"Hail ye your fearless armies,
Which menace feeble folks
Who fight with clubs and arrows
and brook your rifle’s smoke".
True, he did travel there for the Passover celebration