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Imperialism and The White Man's Burden by Rudyard Kipling

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supporting its position. Upon closer scrutiny, however, and examination with an unbiased perspective, it becomes easy to see that Kipling was embedding a sharply satirical attitude to what appeared  to be anti-imperialistic support but was actually provocation in support of imperialism. According to William Dean Howells - one of the most prominent turn-of-the-century literary figures who, along with  myriad others who misconstrued Kiplings message, indicated that: "It is very fine and notable; it is poetry with an object, and it is, perhaps, the most significant recent utterance of  a literary man. I think, however, that it has been taken rather differently from what it was intended. To me it seems a note of warning" (Howells PG).  Kipling primary point was to comment upon the fact that if America did not assert its strength as one of the worlds most powerful nations by developing the Philippines after  the Spanish/American War, its global authority would be called to question forever after. From Paul Kennedys assertions in The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and  Military Conflict From 1500 to 2000, one can readily gather that notion of imperialism upon democratic land was a hotly contested and extraordinarily controversial issue; for Kipling to draw attention  to the alleged need to further this political stance meant that he voiced support of the type of leadership to which he had become accustomed. Through Kennedys account, the  reader gains a significantly better understanding of how the United States foreign policy has long reflected imperialist tendencies of American monopolistic capital that exemplifies the nations quest for world supremacy.  In other words, the United States may readily be accused of seeking a dominant posture with regard to global relations, which is a concept some might consider cunningly shallow