EXPLORING ETHNOCENTRISM White man’s burden paper: @3 pages To complete “The White Man’s Burden Paper” discuss: the role European (western) society has played in shaping the globe. Please follow the same guidelines (formatting, citing etc.) as your compare/contrast paper. Address these four areas:

1. Discuss the White Man’s Burden and the White Man’s Guilt

1. Define each of these concepts (do a cursory internet search for both ideas)2. Rudyard Kipling (author of the jungle book) is credited with the idea of the white man’s burden

(start there)

2. Identify specific groups that were targeted by these practices in history and in the contemporary world

1. Define the third world and the first world – compare/contrast each2. How has Europe and/or America impacted the third world?

3. Discuss the west’s ineffectiveness to overcome the guilt and address world poverty1. The white man’s guilt has to do with the west’s “guilt” over the concept of the “burden” and the

west’s failures2. Primarily the west has failed in aid, but also diplomatically and militarily3. Do you agree or disagree with these issues?

4. Predict the state of third world countries in the future

1. Take a stand – do you agree with the burden or the guilt?

2. Do you think the west should interfere or involve itself with the third world?

3. Support your claims, your opinions, your critiques

WRITTEN ASSIGNMENTSFor written assignments, please follow these guidelines:

• Use proper spelling and grammar • Type your assignment using a readable and reasonable typeface and

size (ie. 12 pt Times New Roman)• Cite all sources in the body of the essay/paper and at the end in a

bibliography • Quotes should appear in the body of the paper with quotation marks.

Quotes longer than four lines should be indented. • Do not rely excessively on quotes • No plagiarism – any source not cited is considered a blatant copy of

the original source. Copying from another’s written work is a serious academic offense.

• Citing the textbook is not necessary but is an option. Using outside sources is also not necessary, but if outside sources are used, please cite accordingly.

HELP!The following information is meant as a guide to help support you through the development of this term paper.

RUDYARD KIPLINGRudyard Kipling's "The White Man's Burden" http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5478/• The Jungle Book

• fables about anthropomorphic animals to give moral lessons

• borrowed by his friend Lord Baden Powell as a way to instruct boy’s as junior military scouts – The Boy Scouts

• The White Man’s Burden• In this poem, Kipling urged the U.S. to take up the

“burden” of empire, as had Britain and other European nations

• “Take up the White Man’s Burden”

WILLIAM EASTERLY"The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good" http://www.amazon.com/The-White-Mans-Burden-Efforts/dp/0143038826William Easterly

• Professor of Economics at New York University• skeptical toward many of the trends that are common in

the field of foreign aid• leads the ongoing debate on if aid to Third World

countries actually improves the lives of those people

CHAPTER 11Sayre calls Chapter 11 the “Centers of Culture”Chapter 11 in lieu of the White Man’s Burden

• Why do you think your instructor scheduled this term paper to coincide with Chapter 11?

• How might ethnocentrism be at play in the organization of Chapter 11?

Can an outsider really study a different culture?• Without being raised in a culture, can you ever really see

the culture for what it is?• Is it possible to get rid of bias?

THE OTHERThe notion of the “Other” in social sciences

• Anthropology was developed for the express purpose of studying the “Other”

• Is this ethical?• What is the ramification for culture if we never study

“Others”?The Other means Not The Same

• separate is inherently not equal • the Other became synonymous with colonialism and

imperialism • how does this idea impact how we tell history?