Question

What did White Man’s Burden state?

a
Indigenous people had the inalienable right to self-preservation
b
Communism was bad...really bad.
c
Colonizers were free to take the resources and destroy as many civilizations as required.
d
Western nations had a moral obligation to civilize and uplift non-Western societies.

Answer 1

d — Western nations had a moral obligation to civilize and uplift non-Western societies. The phrase comes from Rudyard Kipling's 1899 poem urging imperial powers to take up colonial rule as a "burden" of civilizing supposedly "lesser" peoples.