Journal Nov. 21

I think that the white man's burden is trying to say that all of their problems come from the African people. To me it feels like the white man's burden is just blaming the Africans for creating problems. The the white man's burden makes the person writing it seem rich and spoiled because they are saying they have all these hard thing to do. However the things that they are saying are hard aren't even that hard. The white man's burden makes it seem like white people are higher up therefore they shouldn't have all these troubles. The white man's burden is also saying that they feel like it is there duty to colonize everyone and they are putting more problems on themselves . They could easily solve most of there problems but they just chose to complain. The black man's burden kind of makes the white man's burden seem childish and whiny. The black man's burden  contains more realistic problems as well as harder problems. To me, The black man's burden is kind of like, "Oh, you say you have all these problems but look at us, we have more problems." I think that this relates to the book because the white men feel it is there duty to colonize Africa and they are putting more problems on themselves. However, the African people don't want them.