White man’s burden refers to the rich thinking that they have a moral duty and obligation to help "the poor" "better" themselves whether the poor want the help or not. However, these people did not had the intentions of helping the other countries benefit for being more industrialized, instead they wanted to benefit from conquering these countries as they could have more land, money and power. It is an act of racism as the whites would think that they were much superior and capable that they should be responsible or the other races.

REASONS FOR DUTCH COLONIAL INTEREST

Dutch lost its territories, money and other colonial possessions during the war previously and made other countries lost respect for Dutch. The Dutch felt demoralized and they were eager to find means of recovery. And through the white man’s burden, the Dutch made the Indonesians cultivate crop for them to sell. Hence, the Dutch managed to earn quite a large amount of money from these cash crops, which made them so keen on colonialism. While British became a larger empire having conquered more land, the Dutch felt threatened that the British is more powerful than them and hence they also wanted to become stronger. Thus, they began conquering more land through the white man’s burden. Furthermore, since the many countries were experiencing industrialization then, there was an expansion of trade and communication, which allows the Dutch to find their targets for raw materials in the East Indies.

HOW DID DUTCH DEMONSTRATE WHITE MAN’S DURDEN

The exploitation of Indonesia's wealth contributed to the industrialization of the Netherlands. They became one of the most significant colonial powers from the plantations cultivated by the Javanese such as quinine and pepper, rubber and coconut products etc. The Dutch also had collected land tax on the people even though the plantations were quite profitable. They applied the cultivation system making Java a Dutch plantation which allows Netherlands to rely on these profits to stay self-sufficient. However, this “burden” of the Dutch brought much suffering for the Javanese as there were famine and epidemics while they gain all the profit. Since the cultivation of these crops increased on demand, there became lesser land for plantation of rice crop, creating a larger scale of famine. There was the ethical policy, which the colonial government had a duty to further the welfare of the Indonesian people in health and education. However the government was unable to manage such a large amount of people and hence a many of the people remained illiterate since there wasn’t enough secondary and tertiary education provided. Yet, there was a very small amount of people that were rather outstanding in their education.