- white man's burden
- 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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white man's burden — the alleged duty of the white race to care for subject peoples of other races in its colonial possessions. [after a poem of the same title by Rudyard Kipling (1899)] * * * … Universalium
