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The Indians were at long last tamed by shameful means and our nation's youthful vitality needed to bust out in other directions.
印第安人最終被可恥的手段馴服了，我們國家青春的活力需要向其它方向噴涌
The directions in question were west into the Pacific Islands and South East into the Caribbean Sea.
問題是，是向西推進太平洋島嶼，還是向東南推進加勒比海地區
Thanks for the Spanish American war of 1898 the US acquired control over Cuba, Guam in the Philippines, that same year Hawaii was annexed.
多虧1898年的西班牙美國之戰，美國控制了古巴、菲律賓的關島，還吞并了夏威夷
In 1903 the US set up a virtual satellite state in Panama to realise its dream of a canal connecting the Atlantic and the Pacific.
1903年，美國在巴拿馬建立了實質上的附庸州，來實現自己建造聯通大西洋和太平洋的夢想
These developments were all well and good for the United States but Americans also felt it necessary to convince themselves
這些發展對于美國而言都相當好，但是美國人也舉得有必要讓自己信服
they were spreading the benefits of democratic American civilization to these poor uncivilized savages.
他們是在把美國民主文明的益處傳播給這些可憐的未開化的野蠻人
Two, the white mans burden.
第二點，白人的負擔
A major part of late 19th century imperialism
20世紀晚期的帝國主義中很重要的一個內容
was the common European and American belief that white people were superior to blacks, Orientals and everybody else.
就是歐洲和美國人都相信，白人要比黑人，東方人等等都要優越
In 1899 the Englishman Rudyard Kipling wrote a poem called the white mans burden
1899年,英國人魯德亞德·吉卜林寫了一首詩，叫做《白人的負擔》
in which he encouraged the United States to help civilize the heathen world.
在詩中，他鼓勵美國幫助開化野蠻的世界
