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How is the White Man’s Burden a cause for imperialism? What role did it play in later involvement in foreign affairs?

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As a poet of imperialism, Kipling exhorts the American reader and listener to take up the enterprise of empire, yet warns about the personal costs faced, endured, and paid in building an empire; nonetheless, American imperialists understood the phrase the white man's burden to justify imperial conquest as a mission

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