The concept of "White Man's Burden" picks up where "Manifest Destiny" left off.
Date: 1899
Published in McClure's Magazine in February 1899, the poem, "White Man's Burden," by Rudyard Kipling, advocates for American imperialism in Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines.
Picking up where the trope of "Manifest Destiny" leaves off, the poem not only justifies expansion but presents colonization as a "noble" effort. Under this mentality, whites now have a "moral imperative" to govern "inferior peoples," a mission "preordained" in the hierarchy of races.