little brown women

[billy]

Kipling's 'white man's burden' is arguably aimed at those living in the Philippines [think of the American control of the pacific and domination of the Japanese] and other surrounding areas and was seen by some as bad poetry. while Roosevelt liked it, some senators didn't. does it smack of imperialism? very possibly, is it bad poetry; some would say yes but i read it as an excellent piece that worked in capturing not only an ideology but the expectations of two sides of a condition. and personally i don't think anything should be universally accepted.