THE WHITE MAN'S BURDEN
THE WHITE MAN'S BURDEN INTRODUCTION In the backdrop of Philippine- American War( 1899-1902), Rudyard Kipling justifies imperialism, eurocentric racism and the noble enterprise of civilization through industrialization in his poem " The White Man's Burden: The United States and the Philippine Islands" (1899). Interchanged with poem "Recessional" for the Diamond Jubilee celebration of Queen Victoria's reign ( 1837-1901), Kipling rewrote the poem to exhort Americans to colonize the Philippine Islands conquered from Imperial Spain. Echoing the related American Philosophy Manifest Destiny , the poem was first published in The New York Sun on 10 Feb 1899. Later, Kipling included the poem in his 1903 collection The Five Nations. The belief of the Western World that colonization is the way to civilise the Third World made Senator Tillman argue against the Treaty of Paris ratifying the claim of US over the Philippine Island. THE IMPERIALIST INTERPRETATION AND