The "White Man's Burden"

The "White Man's Burden"- This is mentioned towards the end of the video Race: The Power of an Illusion, Part II, The Story We Tell to show how whites viewed themselves in society. They thought it was their objective to civilize the rest of the world because they viewed other races as inferior and without civilization. They thought it was their burden to teach the rest of the world and keep civilization alive. This burden is hinted at a little bit in his book A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America in chapter 3 "The Giddy Multitude", but in a different context. Takaki talks about how Jefferson viewed slavery as a burden for whites because he feared blacks and whites would kill each other eventually on p. 75. He thought it was a burden for whites because they would have to deport all blacks away from America and that there was no "practicable" way to do such a thing on p. 71. He attempts to give a solution by saying that all new-born blacks should be raised and then deported at a certain age and the older generations would die off. Jefferson shows a different context of the view of the "white man's burden".