The White Man's Burden

“If there is something in these utterances more than youthful inexperience, more than a lack of factual knowledge, what is it? Quite simply it is the desire -- one might indeed say the need -- in Western psychology to set Africa up as a foil to Europe, as a place of negations at once remote and vaguely familiar, in comparison with which Europe 's own state of spiritual grace will be manifest. This need is not new; which should relieve us all of considerable responsibility and perhaps make us…

As stated by Mamdani Mahmood in his book, colonialism in Rwanda was “the white man’s burden. Said to signify the pinnacle of Western civilization, the modern state was considered testimony to the organizing genius of Western man. The architecture of modern state was inscribed in modern law, Wester law. And rule of law was in turn central…

through laws, and the socio-economic distribution of precious resources, which the Europeans wanted to spread. This relates to Napoleon’s idea of liberating the countries that he conquered by making them more like France. The poem, the White Man’s Burden, mentions that white man take care of these backwards countries since they don’t know better. The phrase, “half devil and half child” is meant for the natives, stating that they need religion and are primitive. Countries truly believed they…

military power and nationalism. Missionaries started to believe in Imperialism after Rudyard Kipling expressed the “moral obligation” of Europeans to civilize the uncivilized in his poem “The White Man’s Burden.” Social Darwinism, a theory that emerged in the 1870s, caused Europeans to believe that they, the white race, were superior to others, and would naturally improve…

A little old man in a tiny little studio in 1550 Italy paints away on cheap canvas. No one would suspect that the simple act of him painting led to imperialization. Most people would imagine a pompous, slightly obese emperor moving chess pieces across a world map deciding which country he wants to snatch up next. While imperialization is the act of one country controlling another, it did not start with great men in high castles but among the ballet dancers and scientists and Enlightenment…

money of the continent (Michalopoulos & Papaioannou, 2016). By 1900, the whole of Africa was now colonized and ruled by European nations, the Great Britain was at the top followed by France, Italy, Spain, and Berlin. The Europeans used the term "White Man's Burden," a concept they used in…

Let’s play house. A little girl is in a floral dress with her little apron as she pretends to cook dinner for her family. She has a little baby doll that she cradles in her arms as she finishes up the dinner and gets ready to start the laundry. A little boy comes in acting as if he had a long day of work asking her if dinner was ready and if his cloths were ready. When you were younger the girls were told to play with dolls and Barbie’s. Our parents brought us little kitchen and told us the…

success, and that nature is the heart of human life. Nature is a powerful, and flawless, everlasting beauty. In the eyes of Chris McCandless, transcendentalism is how you perceive your surroundings. This is shown by, “The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun”(Krakauer…

(Marcuse 37). This would lead to the workers and the government accepting a common interest framework that could manage the centrifugal tendencies of automation (Marcuse 37). Marcuse uses a quote from C. Wright Mills, White Collar, to explain that worker (in C. Wright Mills quote “white collar workers”), that are free from the demands of physical labor, will make it easier to identify the true interests of labor in the whole…

The structure of the world we live in today is barely 400 years old. Massive changes have occurred in these past centuries to shape the ‘modern world’. One of the most important factors in the formation of the modern world is colonialism. This form of cultural, social and physical domination developed with the expansion of Europe and then the United States of America. Colonialism which Said defines as the “implanting of settlements on distant territory” was not a novel concept to the western…