Tiers-Monde, culpabilité, haine de soi) is a 1983 book by the French philosopher Pascal Bruckner.
[2] Roger Kimball regards Bruckner's 2006 book The Tyranny of Guilt as a sequel to The Tears of the White Man.
[3] Intellectual historian Richard Wolin described Tears of the White Man as "an unflinching attempt to come to grips with the conceit of Third Worldism... As the dreams of Soviet style Communism gradually soured, many on the left had transposed their allegiances to revolutionary insurgencies in the Southern Hemisphere: in Latin America, Africa, and Asia.
'"[4] Kirkus Reviews wrote: "Throughout Bruckner's debate, the tone of vehement insensitivity to possible ether points of view is reminiscent of the most egoistic American political writers.
"[5] Writing in Foreign Affairs in 1987, Fritz Stern described the book as "a diatribe against the ideologues of Western guilt, against pious compassion with and exaltation of Third World countries" which "turns into a polemic, sometimes against straw men".