Filipino American Imperialism

The filipino-American War was the United States’ first colonial war as a world power. After defeating Spain in 1898, the United States purchased the Philippines, Puerto Rico and several other islands from the Spain. However, the Filipinos had been fighting a bloody revolution with Spain since 1896, and there was no intention of becoming a colony of another imperialist power. In February 1899, fighting broke out between the occupying American Army and the Filipino forces. The US government was not justified in trying to fight a war in the Philippines to bring modern civilization to the backward Filipinos. Because this war was a standard colonial oppression, war which the United States used their power to control Philippines and led to

The author says “Take up the White Man’s burden” and “To serve your captives’ need.” These quotes meant to be that the author believes the United States have to help Philippines from their struggle. He also tells the White Man to “Be done with childish days,” telling that the United States have to civilize the Philippines. There are two important sources to look at according to occasion, or time period when the White Man’s Burden was written. The larger occasion is the environment at this time, which was that imperialism was a great way to make a country wealthy while helping another country to be more like the imperializing one. The smaller occasion is the certain event that led the author to create a piece, which was the United States’ imperialism of the Philippines. The author was explaining about the Philippines because the poem was written when the war was happen. Mostly, the United States a civilized country is acting as a powerful nation, such as Britain and the Soviet Union at the time, and trying to imperialize over the

He was aware that vile theories were then either being generated or revived by the educated hirelings of the European and American ruling classes, to justify their piratical conquests in Africa and Asia. These depraved bourgeois scientists posited that the single human race was actually composed of several different races, and that these races could be ranked in a hierarchy based upon intelligence and culture. Not surprisingly, they placed their own race the white race at the top of the hierarchy and therefore deserving of world