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The message of this poem was used by many Europeans to justify The White Man’s Burden. Take up the White Man’s burden— Send forth the best ye breed— Go, bind your sons to exile To serve your captives’ need; To wait, in heavy harness, On fluttered folk and wild— Your new-caught sullen peoples, Half-devil and half-child. . . .” — Rudyard Kipling, 1899 from the NYS Global History and Geography Regents Exam, June 2003. (1) industrialism (2) feudalism (3) imperialism (4) fascism

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The message of this poem was used by many Europeans to justify imperialism.
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