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. According to Kipling, why were imperialists motivated to take over other countries?

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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. According to Kipling, why were imperialists motivated to take over other countries?

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Kipling's poem suggests that imperialists were motivated by a sense of duty and the belief that it was their responsibility to bring civilization and progress to the perceived less-developed peoples of other countries. The phrase "White Man's burden" reflects the idea of a moral obligation to uplift and guide other nations, even if it involves sacrifices and challenges.

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