There are a great many outmoded slogans, such as 'Manifest Destiny', and 'The White Man's Burden' - but in their day, which was not too long ago, they represented the popular thinking of the most powerful nations of the civilized world. It all had to do with the belief that the peoples of the west were the only ones fit to rule... Today of course, this concept has become obsolete. But, like all fixed ideas, it dies hard, and it still has its adherence.