White Man's Burden Response

Rudyard Kipling describes the native people very differently as opposed to the Europeans. He speaks so highly about the "white man" compared to the natives. Kipling at various times in the poem describes the natives as uncivilized and not culturally proper. He also believed that imperialism was greater than the government of the natives. The attitude that he shows during this poem is arrogance and this is directed towards the natives. He even tries to tell natives to renounce their current lifestyles and adopt the European ways ("white man's burden"). Kipling is illustrating that everything that the Europeans do is the proper style and nothing else works. Overall, Kipling is trying to support his opinion that all natives are foolish and need to be disciplined, while the Europeans are very advanced and ahead of everyone else.