{"id":8716,"date":"2015-02-17T08:36:06","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T08:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mangoes-and-bullets.org\/the-white-mans-burden\/"},"modified":"2015-02-17T08:36:06","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T08:36:06","slug":"the-white-mans-burden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mangoes-and-bullets.org\/en\/the-white-mans-burden\/","title":{"rendered":"The White Man&#8217;s Burden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mangoes-and-bullets.org\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/The-White-Man%E2%80%99s-Burden.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2508\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mangoes-and-bullets.org\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/The-White-Man%E2%80%99s-Burden-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"The White Man's Burden\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\"><\/a>This poem by writer <a href=\"https:\/\/de.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rudyard_Kipling\">Rudyard Kipling<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/de.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Das_Dschungelbuch\">&#8220;The Jungle Book&#8221;<\/a>) was published in 1899 under the impression of the U.S. conquest of the Philippines and other former Spanish colonies. The poem is considered one of the essential testimonies of colonialism, and it is debatable whether it criticizes or glorifies imperialism. It can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loske.org\/html\/school\/history\/c19\/burden_full.pdf\">here<\/a> in English and German. See also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mangoes-and-bullets.org\/\/promoe-2006-white-mans-burden-aus-white-mans-burden\/\">Promoe&#8217;s song<\/a> of the same name, critical of colonialism and racism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This poem by writer Rudyard Kipling (&#8220;The Jungle Book&#8221;) was published in 1899 under the impression of the U.S. conquest of the Philippines and other former Spanish colonies. The poem is considered one of the essential testimonies of colonialism, and it is debatable whether it criticizes or glorifies imperialism. It can be found here in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7358,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[380,468],"tags":[357,392,363],"class_list":{"0":"post-8716","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-literature","8":"category-poetry","9":"tag-colonialism","10":"tag-language","11":"tag-racism"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/www.mangoes-and-bullets.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/The-White-Man\u2019s-Burden2.jpg",351,185,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.mangoes-and-bullets.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/The-White-Man\u2019s-Burden2-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.mangoes-and-bullets.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/The-White-Man\u2019s-Burden2-300x158.jpg",300,158,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.mangoes-and-bullets.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/The-White-Man\u2019s-Burden2.jpg",351,185,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.mangoes-and-bullets.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/The-White-Man\u2019s-Burden2.jpg",351,185,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.mangoes-and-bullets.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/The-White-Man\u2019s-Burden2.jpg",351,185,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.mangoes-and-bullets.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/The-White-Man\u2019s-Burden2.jpg",351,185,false],"bunyad-small":["https:\/\/www.mangoes-and-bullets.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/The-White-Man\u2019s-Burden2.jpg",150,79,false],"bunyad-medium":["https:\/\/www.mangoes-and-bullets.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/The-White-Man\u2019s-Burden2.jpg",351,185,false],"bunyad-full":["https:\/\/www.mangoes-and-bullets.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/The-White-Man\u2019s-Burden2.jpg",351,185,false],"bunyad-viewport":["https:\/\/www.mangoes-and-bullets.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/The-White-Man\u2019s-Burden2.jpg",351,185,false],"bunyad-768":["https:\/\/www.mangoes-and-bullets.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/The-White-Man\u2019s-Burden2.jpg",351,185,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"glokal e.V.","author_link":"https:\/\/www.mangoes-and-bullets.org\/en\/author\/glokal\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"This poem by writer Rudyard Kipling (&#8220;The Jungle Book&#8221;) was published in 1899 under the impression of the U.S. conquest of the Philippines and other former Spanish colonies. 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