As per the theory of white man's burden, the white man of Europe was civilized, while the natives of Asia, Africa and the Americas were not. So, as colonizers of the Asian and African nations, the burden of civilizing the natives fell on the white man, as per this theory.To answer the impact on colonized people, there were those among them who adopted Western culture, banishing and denigrating their own. Then, there was another category that tried to fuse what was best in their culture and Western culture, and tried to prove to the whites that there culture was equally great, if not greater (in the Indian context, some examples of such people would include Raja Rammohan Roy, Swami Vivekananda and Mahatma Gandhi). Then, there were others who made exaggerated claims about their culture, and tried to prove that everything good and great emerged in their country only. Then, there was a fourth category of conservatives, who even upheld those practices in their culture that were considered to be social evils and blamed the Westerners for disturbing the established order of things.Many of the people in the first category emraced Christianity, though there were many other factors responsible for people embracing Christianity outside the Middle East and Europe.