When the United States took over the Philippines after the Spanish-American War in 1899, British poet Rudyard Kipling wrote a poem in praise of imperialism. Each stanza began: "Take up the White Man's burden."
After World War II, colonialism became a nasty word. The Philippines - and just about every other colony - won political independence.
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