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Kipling clearly liked the idea of enslaving the people of one Asian country on the other side of the world. The White Man's Burden was written with the sole intention of persuading Americans not to give freedom to the Philippines. On the other hand the political cartoon is obviously is showing that the white man is carrying all other races on his back, and that without him they wouldn't prosper.
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This poem was once very popular. It was written in 1899, at a time when Filipinos were fighting for independence from the United States of America. Many readers today are probably not aware of the fact that the United States colonized the Philippines.
Poem is, by modern standards, extremely offensive. The author calls the population of another race "freshly caught, frowned upon people" who are "half devil and half children." He criticizes them for not accepting white people as "better than themselves" and those who "brought them to the light of day" by colonization.
"White man's burden" is a term synonymous with English imperialism and racism in the English-speaking world today.
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This was a mixture of things.
The increase in population from soldiers and influx of immigrants caused the need for more food to be produced and more jobs to be demanded. So farmers started over producing which led to the Dust Bowl and, eventually, the Great Depression.
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"Manifest Destiny". It means "the belief of many that the United States was destined to control all of the land between the two oceans".
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For half a century, memories of the Holocaust limited anti-Semitism on the Continent. That period has ended—the recent fatal attacks in Paris and Copenhagen
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