The term "white man's burden" came into existence during the Spanish-American war, and came to represent the magnanimous and charitable attitude of white society toward "less-civilized" cultures, which were seen as the economic burden of the white race ("History Matters," N.D., para. 1). ... This theory helped motivate the European compulsion to "domesticate" those they considered uncivilized, in order to make the world a safer place for the white man and his family. ... US and Allied tacticians knew that a massive power vacuum would ensue, once the...

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Italy with Dante, Machiavelli and Ariosto, while Spain with Juan del Encina and Fernando de Rojas. ... " Shakespeare rhymed "tea" with tay, "sea" with say, he was very free with words in his plays. ... Shakespeare gave us a new world in words and insights which would colour, help, deepen, lighten and depict our lives in thought and feeling. ...

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