Rudyard Kipling's poem reads today as if it is sarcasm, directed at conquerors, chiding them for the idea that they are better than those they've taken over and assigning them the duty of improving their manner of civilized behavior.
It wasn't sarcasm then, and it certainly has some application now as savage immigrants invade civilized nations and attempt to downgrade behavior to a level that shocks sophisticated Westerners.
I'm speaking of the rape culture that Arab and African immigrants want to import to Western Europe. See Migrant rape fears spread across Europe: Women told not to go out at night alone after assaults carried out in Sweden, Finland, Germany, Austria and Switzerland amid warnings gangs are co-ordinating attacks.
They seem to be implying that a woman going out alone deserves what she gets. The government is off the hook. The people simply need to adapt to their new visitors instead of the other way around. There needs to be some adapting, all right.
Meanwhile:
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;
From The White Man’s Burden.
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