Imperialism has spread widely throughout history as the conquest of weaker cultures by more technologically advanced or more powerful cultures. Imperialism was essentially the formation of a powerful empire. It is the creation of unequal cultural, economic and territorial relations, based on domination and subordination, usually between states and often in the form of an empire. Occurring when one country dominates aggressive or passive powers over another country. In the late 1800s and early 1900s, this was immortalized in a poplar concept, "The White Man's Burden" by British poet Rudyard Kipling who, in 1899, urged America to "assume the white man's burden" and to colonize the Philippines. Kipling's phrase is the very essence of a racist view that the inhabitants of uncivilized worlds are victims, incapable of helping themselves. His concept asserted that the need for humanitarian intervention by imperialism was a noble goal enabling the propagation of higher values; the responsibility of white Europeans to teach "good" European civilization to barbaric nations of color incapable of ...