The White Man's Burden

In the Dull city of Albuquerque, New Mexico exists a dying man’s wish. Walter White, a High School Chemist teacher that has been diagnosed with terminal Lung cancer. He suffers from the thought of leaving his family to bear the burden of his medical expenses and of an absent male figure. Walter White is a fictional character in the television show, The Breaking Bad, where he must take advantage of the time he has left to ensure his family is left with something. The Breaking Bad is a captivating…

I create a sense of racism i.e. the white and the black: one being superior while the other inferior. Fanon, in his book “Black Skin White Mask” writes “The feeling of inferiority of the colonized is correlative to the European’s feeling of superiority. Let us have the courage to say it outright: it is the racist who creates his inferior”(69)…

In Tim Wise’s video, The Pathology of White Privilege, Tim Wise elaborates on several race-related issues and discusses the affects of white privilege as we see in our daily lives. From the beginning, Wise states, “This study found that between 1991 and 2000, there was almost one million African Americans in the United States who died, who would not have died if they merely been white and had the average health care quality and access of the typical white man in this country” (Wise, 2008,…

Surprisingly, women are in charge of planting crops too. Women are tabooed from eating Apuu, a type of yam. It’s a man’s responsibility to cultivate this plant. Men use small dibble sticks to set shallow holes on the outer edge of the garden. The Ute women carry the burden of doing all the crop and household work, whereas the Kapauku equally share the role of taking care of white potatoes. When a man gets married, he becomes a diligent husband and helps out his wife. The importance of the Pig is…

tomorrow, we'd never miss them in two weeks, because the white farmers can take over and produce everything the Jap grows. And we don't want them back when the war ends, either.” (Grodzins). With the Americans, many thought that the Japanese were being selfish and taking the jobs which rightfully belong to the white men. Many of the Japanese would accept the low pay to make a living for their wives and children. The jobs would lessen for the white men because of the Japanese that accepted the…

promotes happiness or stress, success or failure, and in some cases, money has the power to drive a man to end his own life. This was the case in the drama The Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller. The drama portrays an older white couple left with an unending financial burden from the Great Depression. Another drama, The Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry, also shows the hardships that money can lead to. This drama presents the life of a lower class African American family, struggling to…

imperialist business interests have powerful allies. Military and naval leaders believe strongly in extending the white man’s run over the ‘inferior races.’” Although American imperialism provided many benefits for manufacturers, and economy, the allies of business interests or supporters of imperialism that believed that the people of inferior races should be put further under control of the white men. Document 5 also states, “Who are the oppressed? The many: the nations of the earth; the…

British imperialist in Africa states that British are the “finest race in the world” and therefore, it is their duty to colonize all territories. Similarly, the poem, “White Man’s Burden” by Rudyard Kipling emphasizes racial discrimination. The poem justified the immoral action of racial discrimination by stating that it is white men’s duty to colonize and supervise nonwhite men. This misleading conception about human race led to extreme racial discrimination and eventually reached the state of…

colonization people demanded that the inferior races needed to be civilized and the white protestant ideologies propagated amongst the native, uneducated people. Kipling writes a poem in 1899 in which he states that the whites must “take up the White Man’s burden…Send forth the best ye breed” and he then demonizes the natives by saying that, “your new-caught, sullen peoples, half-devil and half-child” (Kipling, “The White Man’s Burden,” Discovering, 253). This poem brings to light the notion…

journalist, Rudyard Kipling wrote “The White Man’s Burden”, a poem about the obligation white people have towards non white citizens of the Earth. He said, “Go send your sons to exile To serve your captives needs … Your new caught sullen peoples Half devil half child”. According to him white people “serve” their slaves, he believes that they are helping them instead of hindering the development of their race. Evidently, his view of white people is bias against non white people. It’s clear…