The meaning of “the white man’s burden” by rudyard kipling, 1899

To simplify years of systematic racism and white superiority in europe and america, the poem was written because kipling and many other white europeans at the time believed it was their responsibility to dominate non white “uncivilized” places with cultures they didn’t understand.

Both society's resembled the same thing, a social pyramid.

Explanation:

The both used the pyramid or ladder, as a way to show the levels of power in both of the civilizations.