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What does white man's burden mean?

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Noun
  1. The supposed responsibility of European people to govern and care for their colonial subjects
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Even the neocons, for all their viciousness and totalitarian gut instincts, sometimes show signs of taking their white man's burden seriously.
Neither he nor Vattimo mentions manifest destiny or the white man's burden, but these ideas lurk disturbingly close to the surface of their urbanely arrogant prose.
He obviously thinks it's time we donned our pith helmets and picked up the white man's burden again.
This is hardly surprising, since the white man's burden has long been recognized as an excuse for the most vile exploitation.
We will go out, we will pick up the white man's burden and we will colonise these areas that are not yet under our domination.
The Brick Maker Imperialism used to be the white man's burden.

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