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WHITE MAN'S BURDEN

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Dictionary entry overview: What does white man's burden mean?

• WHITE MAN'S BURDEN (noun)
The noun WHITE MAN'S BURDEN has 1 sense:

1. the supposed responsibility of the white race to provide care for their non-white subjects

Familiarity information: WHITE MAN'S BURDEN used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• WHITE MAN'S BURDEN (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

The supposed responsibility of the white race to provide care for their non-white subjects

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("white man's burden" is a kind of...):

duty; obligation; responsibility (the social force that binds you to the courses of action demanded by that force)

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