One of the issues in the first half of the twentieth centuries was colonialism, often qualified then as "The White man's burden" Rudyard Kipling wrote a poem with the same title. In those times, it was seen as a noble enterprise given the belief in ratial superiority and as a source of raw materials for the Industrial Revolution to progress.
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.
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.
