While in a three-month Spanish–American War; the United States felt the urge to take up the “burden” of empire, as had Britain. The author of the short poem, "White Man's Burden" believed in the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries that white men took responsibility for educating ethnicities who considered to be uncivilized and/or ignorant. This pretty much applied to anyone who was not white. “Your new-caught, sullen peoples, half-devil and half-child,” said Kipling, relates to colonialism by referring to the native peoples as from the dumps with different custom and religion (7-8). In line eight of Kipling’s poem “child” is referring to not being sure of ignorance …show more content…
The black man in the poem, “The Black Man’s Burden,” is really a white man trying to take over which resembles colonialism. Harrison once said “Will not your fraud of “freedom”” which shows that fraud freedom appears as a bait n’ switch; meaning the buyer is attracted to the advertisement of a low-priced item but then is expected to pay higher expenses (43). Colonialism can mirror the bait n’ switch because many native people are sold cheaply, but then end up buying expensive, which was not intended. Harrison also explained “These silent, sullen peoples” intending that the silent native peoples can not speak English, therefore they remain silent (47). Colonialism did not help the native people who remained silent because of literacy