THE FILIPINO MIND: "THE WHITE MAN'S BURDEN" - The US and ...
In this poem, Kipling urged the U.S. to take up the “burden” of empire, as had Britain and other European nations. Its publication coincided with the beginning of the Philippine-American War and U.S. Senate ratification of the Treaty of Paris (1898) that placed Puerto Rico, Guam, Cuba, and the Philippines under American control.