This passage is a commentary on what era in united states and world history?

This is the full question:

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,

A hundred times made plain

To seek another's profit,

And work another's gain.

This passage is a commentary on what era in the United States and World History?

The passage is about  European imperialism in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Explanation:

This can be seen in these lines:

Go bind your sons to exile

To serve your captives' need;

To wait in heavy harness,

On fluttered folk and wild--

These particular lines represent the practice that the European force toward its colony. Many families are forced to work for the Imperial without receiving any in return. just like Slaves.

A hundred times made plain

To seek another's profit,

And work another's gain.

These lines represent the purpose of the colonization. At that time, the colonized country was forced to produce the type of goods that will be beneficial for the colonizer in the international market. They disregard the actual needs of the people in the colony and focus only to produce the most profitable goods for the king.

they produces sugar..

hope this , question was a little open ended

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