Me 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. —rudyard kipling, "the white man's burden" which lines in this excerpt show ethnocentrism? 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.