Question

Take up the White Man's burden-Send forth the best ye breed-Go bind your sons to exileTo serve your captives' need;To wait in 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?

Answer 1

Answer:

Your new-caught, sullen peoples, Half-devil and half-child.

Explanation:

Ethnocentrism is the philosophy or social belief that involves judging other cultures based on one's own culture. In other words, we can say ethnocentrism is the practice of basing one's own culture to talk or judge other cultures.

In the given lines from Rudyard Kipling's poem "The White Man's Burden", ethnocentrism is found in the line "Your new-caught, sullen peoples, Half-devil and half-child." In this line, the speaker, obviously a white person, refers to the natives as "sullen people, half-devil, half-child." This derogatory language is used to refer to the inferior nature of the natives as compared to the white men who are there to "carry the White Man's burden."