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white man's burden

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white man's burden

Main Entry:: white man's burden
Function:: noun
Etymology:: “The White Man's Burden” (1899), poem by Rudyard Kipling
Date:: 1900

: the alleged duty of the white peoples to manage the affairs of the less developed nonwhite peoples

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