Racism And Ethnocentrism: Poem Analysis

The main idea of this source portrayed by the author likely is that white men are superior and others, including natives are all uncivilized animals that is “half-devil and half-child”. It is the white man’s job and responsibility to civilize those indigenous people but when they are close to have accomplished their goal, the uncivilized will ruin it because they are “sloth and heathen Folly” meaning that they are lazy and foolish. However, the uncivilized would not appreciate it because they do not understand that it is benefitting them. The creator of this source demonstrates racism and ethnocentrism when he keep repeating the white man’s burden and suggests that you can judge someone’s inner character by their looks on the outside, in which
The attitude of eurocentrism is best displayed when evidence shows that this poem focuses on the worldview of Western civilization. The source creator likely supports eugenics because it selects only the best genetics to breed so that all “poor” and undesirable traits are eliminated in the process, which can perhaps help “take up the White Man’s Burden”. This source is also a distinct example of globalization since it leans toward assimilation and colonization like what had happened during the New Imperialism when scramble for Africa occurred. It was time when Britain and other euro powers occupied and colonized African territories to impose military, and economic influences. By colonizing a lot of the non-caucasian countries, assimilation was common and instead of being interconnected with each other, the colonizer exploited their land, resources and raw materials to benefit themselves as in mercantilism while influencing their traditions and culture to become
SOURCE II would believe that racism and eurocentrism both played a major part in a culture’s history and is a big factor that depends their social status or how they were treated by others. Simply due to the differences in skin colour, appearances and other physical traits that was unalike the dominant culture, the Europeans, they were innocently categorized as uncivilized people that needed to adapt to a different life style because that was known as the civilized way. SOURCE I would likely argue that race was a distinct but useful way of identifying cultures of other nations because from their point of view, having technology and “civilized” people are more advanced than those who are still struggling as if they haven’t got out of the Stone Age era. SOURCE I lead to the events in SOURCE II because it was a response to SOURCE I as the author defends the non-Western cultures and makes the opposition that the Europeans are more likely to be using “civilization” as an excuse for colonizing the continent and exploiting their natural resources to gain the most benefit. Because of the eurocentric belief, it is not unusual for SOURCE I to feel superior and think that they are capable of controlling everyone under their powerful