Around the beginning of the 20th century, foreigners, including America, saw China as primitive and militarily weak. As a result, it was believed that China was ready to be exploited for its resources, as well as become a market for imports from other countries. <span>
In 1898, Chinese peasants began to organize into fighting groups in hopes of driving foreigners out of China. They believed foreigners were a threat to Chinese culture. Foreign media labelled these militant peasants as "boxers". </span>
<span>On June 18, 1900, the Chinese Empress Dowager, a supporter of these "boxers", ordered all foreigners inside China to be killed. Several foreign ministers, christian ministers, and their families were killed. This gave the international community a reason to invade with a force of 2100 American, British, Russian, French, Italian, and Japanese soldiers to stop this killing.</span>
The Native Americans were pushed out of their own land, killed, and beaten by "the white man". This is the sole reason why the native American population is "the white mans burden" as Native Americans find it hard to live on scraps left over by the US government to justify their colonialism.
