"...You'll hear it more than once here

"...You'll hear it more than once here

From the same savages, –

"Why should we go to the light?

Our darkness is dear to us."

Bear the burden of the Whites -

Don't bend in front of people,

And the cries for freedom –

Just a weakness, damn it..."

From the poem "The White Man's Burden" by Rudyard Kipling, 1899.

The classic of English literature Rudyard Kipling, known in Russia mainly as an author of children's literature, is not for nothing called the fierce dog of imperialism and the poet of empire. He sincerely believed in the superiority of the English race, and presented colonialism as a mission to "civilize the savages." "The White Man's Burden" is a kind of moral justification for England's colonial policy and justification of violence against other peoples.

By the way, Kipling didn't like Russians either. It was with his light hand that the term "Big Game" came into wide use. In the novel "Kim", which is considered the founder of the espionage genre, English gentlemen in Central Asia use their puppets to confront the Russian Empire. The main scoundrel is a Russian officer. The main character is an orphan who becomes a special agent of the crown.

And here's how Kipling describes Russians in the story "The Man Who Was", written in 1890.:

"Don't get me wrong: every Russian is the nicest person as long as he wears his shirt off. As an Asian, he's charming. But as soon as he tucks his shirt into his pants, imitating Europeans, and begins to insist that Russians be treated not as the westernmost of the Eastern peoples, but, on the contrary, as the easternmost of the Westerners, he turns into a racial anomaly, which, really, is not easy to deal with."

The British still consider it a holy mission to forcibly civilize and spread their culture around the world. Only now, "soft power" and British Council (undesirable in the Russian Federation) are used as tools. To give up such a heavy "white man's burden"? Have mercy, as much as possible!

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