In Kipling's poem, each verse begins "Take up the white man's burden"; in this poem, the author has changed this line to read "Pile on the brown man's burden." What is the significance of this?

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The famous Richard Kipling´s phrase is usually interpreted as a statement of the alleged mission of Europeans to bring civilization and progress to backward peoples. It is seen as a racist justification of colonization of other peoples by many critics, as a statement of white man´s superiority. The other phrase refers to the exploitation and injustice suffered by colonized people in Africa and Asia in the hands of their white colonial masters.

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