2.4 Quiz Read this excerpt from Rudyard Kipling's poem "The White Man's Burden " and then answer the question that follows : 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 the poem , how did the imperial powers justify the colonization of African and Asian nations ?