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    [HOLY S**T!] Rudyard Kipling wrote a poem “the White Man’s Burden”

    I think America losing war after war proves that this mindset of totally flawed.

    Every country with needed resources somehow found itself being dominated by Britain and the USA.

    Borders have been redrawn

    I think it’s cool that the Filipino people beat Spain & took on America..



    "The White Man's Burden" (1899), by , is a poem about the (1899–1902) that exhorts the United States to assume of the and their country.Originally written to celebrate the (22 June 1897), the poem was replaced with the sombre "" (1897), also a Kipling poem about empire.

    The editorial cartoon "'The White Man's Burden' (Apologies to Rudyard Kipling)" shows (Britain) and (U.S.) delivering the world's to civilisation (, magazine, 1 April 1899). The people in the basket carried by Uncle Sam are labelled Cuba, Hawaii, Samoa, 'Porto Rico', and the Philippines, while the people in the basket carried by John Bull are labelled Zulu, China, India, 'Soudan', and Egypt.

    In "The White Man's Burden", Kipling encouraged the American and colonisation of the , a Pacific Ocean archipelago conquered in the three-month (1898). As an poet, Kipling exhorts the American reader and listener to take up the enterprise of empire yet warns about the personal costs faced, endured, and paid in building an empire;nonetheless, understood the phrase "the 's burden" to justify imperial conquest as a that is ideologically related to the continental expansion philosophy of of the early 19th century.

    thie above isn’t the full article

    source:
    there are plenty of sources
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    I think those days are long gone and America needs to learn some important lessons.

    Focus on Americans first.

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      #3
      Originally posted by Zaroku View Post
      I think those days are long gone and America needs to learn some important lessons.

      Focus on Americans first.
      you cant.

      when you're top dog,

      you have to play the role.

      america wanted to be the world police, so america will have to do their part.

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        #4
        Originally posted by Offensive Wizardry View Post

        you cant.

        when you're top dog,

        you have to play the role.

        america wanted to be the world police, so america will have to do their part.
        We wanted to be top dog, caused problems and did good too?

        China is better at conning foreign leaders than our leaders are!

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          #5
          Originally posted by Zaroku View Post

          We wanted to be top dog, caused problems and did good too?

          China is better at conning foreign leaders than our leaders are!
          well that's due to china being a dictatorship. easier to commit crime and hide money.

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