Imperialism In 'The White Man's Burden'

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Pearson’s idea may have justified imperialism by stating that the superior race, the white, has progressed the most and is doing a favor to the inferior races. He says, “... no longer live in caves and feed on roots...” referring to the white progressing in their nature and did not do things like feed on plants, but people of the imperial countries still might have done these things causing them to be looked upon as uncivil by the whites. Additionally, his ideas connected with ‘The White Man’s Burden’ that the whites’ needed to impose their dominance to inferior races giving them things like their culture or technology. Also, Pearson, in this passage, often refers to the “raw materials” or “food supply” as theirs as in the whites which implies

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