In Kipling’s poem, "White Man's Burden", each verse begins “Take up the white man’s burden”; in "Brown Man's Burden", the author has changed this line to read “Pile on the brown man’s burden.” What is the significance of this?
“The White Man's Burden” presents the conquering of non-white races as white people's selfless moral duty. This conquest, according to the poem, is not for personal or national benefit, but rather for the gain of others—specifically, for the gain of the conquered.
