How is the concept of the "White Man's Burden" connected to Imperialism? b. Because the Europeans thought they were better, they felt that they...

The correct answer to this question is B. The phrase "White Man's Burden" is derived from an 1899 poem with that title written by Rudyard Kipling in which the author encouraged the United States to take up the task of annexing and ruling over the Philippines. In fact, as the title implies, this ideology suggested that it was in fact an obligation of allegedly superior white people to bring the "blessings" of civilization to peoples around the world. This was a major ideological motive--some might say justification--for imperialism. It is true that the United States was not part of the Berlin Conference, and it is also true that the conquest of Africa (arranged, basically, at Berlin) by European countries was a motive in seeking colonies in the Pacific, but this was really unrelated to the idea of a "white man's burden" and more to strategic and especially economic motives.