Quote:It often surprises me how many white people seem ashamed of being white.
Studying history will do that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Man%27s_Burden
Quote:Although Kipling's poem mixed exhortation to empire with somber warnings of the costs involved, imperialists within the United States of America understood the phrase "white man's burden" as a characterization for imperialism that justified the policy as a noble enterprise. Because of its theme and title, it has become emblematic both of Eurocentric racism and of Western aspirations to dominate the developing world.[