In the 19th, century, Europeans often used racist arguments to justify imperialist expansionism. Rudyard Kipling, an educated English man, claims that Indians are “half-devil and half-child” showing us that Europeans think of Indians as evil children that need to be watched over all the time. This tells us that Great Britain justify their imperialism as paternalism. In Kipling’s “The White Man’s Burden” he implies that Europe fixed India’s economy when he states “The savage wars of peace fill full the mouth of famine. And bid the cease;” This however, is not the case. Great Britain made war worse, created famine (most of the farm land in India was used for cash crops) and spread small pox that made disease worse in India. To conclude, Europeans
