English Explanatory Dictionary

white man's burden

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The supposed responsibility of European people to govern and care for their colonial subjects.

Word forms

white man's burden

Etymology

From the poem The White Man's Burden (published 1899) by Rudyard Kipling.

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