Which of the following statements does NOT illustrate the concept of the “white man’s burden”?

a. Colonial governments have a duty of association and collaboration toward subject races.
b. Natives deserved to be civilized by the guidance and superiority of the white men.
c. Missionaries in the Americas were saving the natives and doing God’s work by saving them.
d. European colonizers have a duty to uphold the customs and traditions of the local indigenous people.


Answer: d

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