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 Definitions of white man's burden  [ˈʰwaɪt li, ˈwaɪt-]  

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Definition of 'white man's burden' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) white man's burden
the alleged duty of the white race to care for subject peoples of other races in its colonial possessions.

Etymology:  (after a poem of the same title by Rudyard Kipling (1899))

Definition of 'white man's burden' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) white man's burden
the supposed responsibility of the white race to provide care for their non-white subjects

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