Giving Voice to the Supposed "Civilizing" Aspect of the "New

question 30

Multiple Choice

Giving voice to the supposed "civilizing" aspect of the "new imperialism," Rudyard Kipling urged both the British and the Americans to:

• A)engage in joint colonization efforts,primarily in the Far East.
• B)take up the "White Man's Burden" of empire.
• C)form a "Cultural Union of the West" to help educate the backward peoples of the world.
• D)endeavor to make English the language of all the world's countries.
• E)send missionaries and entrepreneurs rather than the military to foreign countries.

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