As the United States waged war against Filipino insurgents, the British writer and poet Rudyard Kipling urged the Americans to take up \u201cthe white man\u2019s burden.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Take up the White Man\u2019s burden\u2014 <\/p>\n
\nSend forth the best ye breed\u2014
\nGo send your sons to exile
\nTo serve your captives’ need
\nTo wait in heavy harness
\nOn fluttered folk and wild\u2014
\nYour new-caught, sullen peoples,
\nHalf devil and half child
\nTake up the White Man\u2019s burden
\nIn patience to abide
\nTo veil the threat of terror
\nAnd check the show of pride;
\nBy open speech and simple
\nAn hundred times made plain
\nTo seek another\u2019s profit
\nAnd work another\u2019s gain
\nTake up the White Man\u2019s burden\u2014
\nAnd reap his old reward:
\nThe blame of those ye better
\nThe hate of those ye guard\u2014
\nThe cry of hosts ye humour
\n(Ah slowly) to the light:
\n\u201cWhy brought ye us from bondage,
\n\u201cOur loved Egyptian night?\u201d
\nTake up the White Man\u2019s burden-
\nHave done with childish days-
\nThe lightly proffered laurel,
\nThe easy, ungrudged praise.
\nComes now, to search your manhood
\nThrough all the thankless years,
\nCold-edged with dear-bought wisdom,
\nThe judgment of your peers!<\/p>\n