Rudyard Kipling's Phrase "The White Man's Burden" Referred to The

Rudyard Kipling's phrase "the white man's burden" referred to the:

A) cultural disability of a Europe grown old and weary.
B) onerous demands placed on colonial peoples by Europeans.
C) European and North American civilizing mission.
D) sense of collective guilt felt by Europeans about the brutality of colonial rule.
E) chronic excess of colonial imports into Europe relative to manufactured exports.