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[quote=DODGER,252732]Yvonne,
You must put Kipling words in the time and context that it was written.
An upper class man that had, until he had traveled no such experience of meeting people with less wealth than he had.
Also a man from the top 2.5% of the people that owned over 95% of the wealth and the land in the UK at that time with an education that sheltered him from the masses.
He would not have mixed with the working classes of Britain, never mind anyone else.
It was an eye opening experience for him.
In another poem his words are “you are a better man than I am, Gunger Din” So he does admit the failings of the Colonials in a Victorian era where the “White Man” reigned supreme.
Perhaps a wider reading of his works along with an understanding of the thinking of  the time might also help in understanding his words, written more than 100 years ago.
His words were meant, in the poem that you quote, to bring shame to his country and   invoke deeper thought amongst those that held power.
Not unlike those of Dickens.
Dodger. 
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