It is from this narrative that such expansion was supported in an effort to bring progress to America by spreading Christianity and civilization to those in need. It was expected that the superior race will Americanize those savage natives that they encounter in the expansion of the Americas. Kipling’s poem, The White Man’s Burden, is an evocative representation that shows the relationship between racism and imperialism. “Send forth the best ye breed”, the duty to send he who is superior in race and enlighten the indigenous,”Half-devil and half-child” to the ways in which are righteous. An acknowledgment that there was a presumed responsibility of the white man to be charitable and place cultural influences on others. While these ideas may have prospered at the time because the Native Americans were said to be savages, there was a heavy cost paid by the Native American Indians. They had lost their land, been stripped of their rights, and oppressed by the white man. This oppression was simply a way for western power to fulfill the duty to civilize the rest of the
It is from this narrative that such expansion was supported in an effort to bring progress to America by spreading Christianity and civilization to those in need. It was expected that the superior race will Americanize those savage natives that they encounter in the expansion of the Americas. Kipling’s poem, The White Man’s Burden, is an evocative representation that shows the relationship between racism and imperialism. “Send forth the best ye breed”, the duty to send he who is superior in race and enlighten the indigenous,”Half-devil and half-child” to the ways in which are righteous. An acknowledgment that there was a presumed responsibility of the white man to be charitable and place cultural influences on others. While these ideas may have prospered at the time because the Native Americans were said to be savages, there was a heavy cost paid by the Native American Indians. They had lost their land, been stripped of their rights, and oppressed by the white man. This oppression was simply a way for western power to fulfill the duty to civilize the rest of the