Read this excerpt from Rudyard Kipling's poem "The White Man's Burden" and
then answer the question that follows:
Take up the White Man's burden -
Send forth the best ye breed -
Go, bind your sons to exile
To serve your captives' need;
To wait, in heavy harness,
On fluttered folk and wild -
Your new-caught sullen peoples,
Half devil and half child.
Take up the White Man's burden -
In patience to abide,
To veil the threat of terror
And check the show of pride;
By open speech and simple,
An hundred times made plain,
To seek another's profit
And work another's gain."
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The phrase "Your new-caught sullen peoples, / Half devil and half child" is an
example of what belief that Europeans used to justify imperialism?