This four page undergraduate paper examines why Europe was very successful in exporting its ideas abroad. The author notes that the reception of these ideas was not always voluntary, for many of the places European ideas were exported to were the subjugated colonies or territorial possessions of European empires. Most Europeans liked to think that they were carrying the white manÂ’s burden and helping less advanced peoples acquire the benefits of European civilization, but this idea was based much more on hypocrisy than rationality or good intentions.
