Assertion: burden | /r/CapableOf | celebrate british colonialism
Facets:
value: as a mission of civilisation
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: As Victorian imperial poetry, "The White Man's Burden" thematically corresponds to Kipling's belief that the British Empire was the Englishman's "Divine Burden to reign God's Empire on Earth"; and celebrates British colonialism as a mission of civilisation that eventually would benefit the colonised natives.