Take up the White Man's burden- Send forth the best ye breed- Go bind your sons to exile To serve your captives' need; To wait i
n heavy harness, On fluttered folk and wild- Your new-caught, sullen peoples, Half-devil and half-child. —Rudyard Kipling, "The White Man's Burden" Which lines in this excerpt show ethnocentrism? Take up the White Man's burden–/Send forth the best ye breed– Go bind your sons to exile/To serve your captives' need; To serve your captives' needs;/To wait in heavy harness, Your new-caught, sullen peoples,/Half-devil and half-child.
Ethnocentrism is a term used in anthropology, social science, and colloquial English, to describe the assessment of foreign cultures based on notions, ideology or preconceptions that are founded or customary to the culture of the assessor. In ethnocentrism, the assessor uses his culture as the standard or reference frame when judging the customs, beliefs or people from other regions, rather than making use of the standard of the people practicing the particular tradition.