| 单词 | white man's burden |
| 释义 | white man's burdennounthe alleged duty of white colonizers to care for nonwhite Indigenous subjects in their colonial possessions. Origin of white man's burdenAfter a poem of the same title by Rudyard Kipling (1899) Words nearby white man's burdenwhite lung, whitely, white magic, white mahogany, Whiteman, white man's burden, white Mariposa, white market, white marlin, white matter, white meat Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 British Dictionary definitions for white man's burdenWhite man's burden nounthe supposed duty of the White race to bring education and Western culture to the non-White inhabitants of their colonies Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Cultural definitions for white man's burdenwhite man's burden A phrase used to justify European imperialism in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; it is the title of a poem by Rudyard Kipling. The phrase implies that imperialism was motivated by a high-minded desire of whites to uplift people of color. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. |
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