Examples Of Social Darwinism In The White Man's Burden

In the cartoon, John Bull and Uncle Sam, who represent Britain and America respectively, are portrayed to climb the mountain with carrying the burden of people from the colonised territories of Britain (China, India, Egypt, and Soudan) and America (Filipino, Porto Rico, Cuba, Samoa, and Hawaii), which definitively illustrates Kipling’s poem titled “The White Man’s Burden”. We can see the contradictory facial expression between these two white carriers, who must suffer the ponderousness of the journey, and the people inside the burden, who appear to be very jubilant and partly to gloat over the carriers below them. This contrast also opposes to the conventional racism against non-white, non-Western, and non-Christian people. These rocks of the mountain are also carved with different words which are supposed to characterise the white-privilege class of British and American society in 19th century, such as “barbarism”, “ignorance”, “oppression”, “brutality”, ...

Theodore Roosevelt believed the triumph of America was in the hands of American race; who he saw as the one’s most advanced civilized races. Which made all the other races inferior and useless. According to Roosevelt the ideal American man had masculine strength, intelligence, morality, strong virile character, brave, knowledgeable, fearless, and most important virile fighting virtues. American men needed to find a balance between providing for themselves, and their families providing to their nation. Roosevelt also believed in order for racial improvement and expansion; virile American men needed to build a stronger powerful navy and army. Roosevelt had an idea that the United States was full of men whole felt they racial superiority and used it to get ahead of the superior races, and in order to get rid of this intercontinental tension they should strive to advance the people through imperialism. He stressed the notion to congress that was America’s duty as superior nation, to take up the white’s burden in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines. Only then can America prevail in Darwinist racial contest and dominate the world. However, Roosevelt despised any man who lacked this viral traits. He feared unmanly man would cause America to deteriorate, and allow a manlier and strong power to come in and take over. Roosevelt consider these men useless, slothful and a burden to the

However, the organization of the book proved to be beneficial to Williams’ it successfully portrays why he wrote the book and how passionately he felt about its topics. The Tragedy of American Diplomacy follows and critiques the twentieth century belief that the substantial surge of growth in the nineteenth century was crucial to the opulence and security to go forward in America. He highlights the distinction between this idea and the determined quest of expansion with the belief of many Americans that this “economic intervention” would usher in wealth and tranquility to the rest of the world. The tragedy that Williams informs us about is purely ironic because, The American ideals at the time contradict with what was

During the Second Industrial Revolution (1871-1914), the United States became one of the world’s mass producers of agricultural goods, which consumers demanded greatly. However, following the Depression of 1893, the demand for those goods dropped and the supply began to accumulate. This overproduction of goods pushed Americans to bring their markets overseas where they can reduce their inventory and still make profit. Aiding with the movement abroad was the U.S. government, under President McKinley. McKinley had a desire to expand the economy internationally, and his method to achieve that need was through imperialism. Such a method led Hawaii to be annexed with the U.S., as well as bring America into the Spanish-American War (1898). However, when the U.S. strove for the Philippine Islands in 1899, the natives rebelled against U.S. oppression. Whether America should get involved in an overseas war with the Philippines is up to Congress? But to New York Governor and former Rough Rider, Theodore “Tedi” Roosevelt, he believes that the U.S. should approach the challenge, for it will show other nations that America is a strong country and does not fear danger.

As the United States transformed physically from industrialization and competition to secure international markets a new political global hierarchy in the Imperial Age began to form. World power at this time was often accumulated by Nations dominated by the Anglo Saxon races. This power often came at the expense of minorities in non-industrialized Nations. The forceful acquisition of territories by more advanced Nations often resulted from racists theories of white superiority. Notions of white superiority evolved from philosophies like Social Darwinism and were used to support the White Man’s burden or duty to civilize less developed peoples. America in an effort to compete with European Nations on the Global stage obtained several territories from its victory in the Spanish America War. The acquisition of the Philippines in particular, sparked competing interpretations of the definition liberty and its proper administration in these new U.S. Territories. As well as, ignited debates among intellectuals, politicians and the American people over the role America’s foreign policy should embrace in the World Stage. Ultimately, Imperialists championed American foreign policy that restricted the liberty of inferior races, propelling America to embrace its duty to civilize the world as a Global Power. At the same time, anti-imperialists pursued foreign policy measures to expand liberty for native peoples in U.S. Territories insisting imperialism violated America’s founding

From its inception, America has been in a continual state of growth and expansion. Influenced by their grandfathers’ westward expansion in the early 19th century, expansionists in the turn of the 20th century expanded American influence and control worldwide. Various sources brought American desire of faraway land, through both individuals and through developments of the period. However, this Manifest Destiny didn’t always result in positive development, as shown with later problems incurring from the U.S. occupation of Cuba and the Philippines.

In the years following the Civil War, several developments that came with the second Industrial Revolution fueled the nation’s urge for overseas expansion. Many Americans approved of overseas expansion, believing that the superior and exceptional United States functioned as an “international policeman,” and therefore had an obligation to civilize other countries, including the Philippines, Cuba, and Puerto Rico. Meanwhile, those who criticized overseas expansion believed that it violated the traditional American ideals of democracy and peace, and that the United States should focus more on the problems within the country. While the supporters and opponents of overseas expansion had entirely different views from each other, they were alike in that they both based their beliefs on the role of the country as an emerging power and its national identity.

In a passage from Our Country, Josiah states, “let us hope, of the largest liberty, the purest Christianity, the highest civilization -- having developed peculiarly aggressive traits calculated to impress its institutions upon mankind, will spread itself over the earth” (674). This applies to the issues with the Philippines because it supports McKinley's reasoning for sending troops and “missionaries” over to convert the people but ultimately ended up wreaking havoc. “Aguinaldo’s Case against the United States” written by Emilio Aguinaldo explained why he opposed American imperialism. Emilio led the Filipino armed against Spain for Independence. He was against imperialism because he believed the Filipino’s were being treated unfairly, America thinking that they were “ignorant savages”. The point he made was that America was treating the Philippines like how the colonials were treated before they escaped England. Emilio asked for America to “give us the chance; treat us exactly as you demanded to be treated at the hands of England when you rebelled against her autocratic methods”. By America treating the Filipino’s this way, it tossed all their morals about liberty and out the door putting the Filipino’s in the position that Americans were in trying trying to escape from England’s

Until the end of the twentieth century America’s policy towards war was to stay neutral. We stayed out of other governments battles and we avoided war. The United States did not force our ideals on any foreign governments. The US did not want to be the bully who forces countries into having freedom and independence. This noninterventionist America, devoted to solving its own problems and developing its own civilization, became the wonder of the world. People were compelled to come to this wonderful country and share in the freedoms it enjoys. Between 1898 and 1919, trade and cultural exchange flourished, as American civilization progressed and we became an economic powerhouse. American traditions in

What was once perceived to be ‘the white man’s burden’ has engulfed all developed nations – we’re all quixotic fools of imperialism. If you think that you’ve heard of ‘the white man’s burden’ before you’re correct, it is a poetic piece by Kipling; written in 1898 for the purpose of the US (United States). The finale verse is poignant to all: "Take up the white man’s burden, have done with childish days, the lighter proffered laurel, the easy, ungrudged praise. Comes now, to search your manhood through all the thankless years, cold edged with dear bought wisdom, the judgement of your peers!" If you find it deficient of beauty and description it’s because the expansion of its meaning shifts in an emporium tenor. I wish to pass this on to Alexis Tsipras.

The White Man’s Burden by William Easterly argues that the aid agencies come up short since they attempt to meet the idealistic objectives of utopian society. They develop extensive top-down scale plans with little information or accountability from those who try to help. To be helpful to the poor requires understanding the way of life, working from the base up, providing for the poor (their needs and wants), and demanding responsibility be taken for effectiveness. This kind of thinking applies to mission organizations that desire to help those in poorer nations. Easterly helps the reader realize that there really is no secret that stands between us helping the poor.

Charles Darwin was an intelligent scientist back in the late 19th century. He was incredibly witty, with a specialty in biology. On the other hand, one occurring issue relating to Darwin, was that many took his scientific findings into social account. Social Darwinism was the result of this interpretation.

It is almost indisputable that the United States is currently a world superpower. Hans Hoyng is correct when he argues that "America's rise to superpower status began with its 1917 entry into World War I” (Hoyng) because prior to its entry into the Great War, the United States was an overall isolationist country mainly interested in its own wellbeing. Hoyng continues that “President Woodrow Wilson had grand visions for the peace that followed the War, but failed. The battle he started in the US between idealists and realists continues to this day”. World War I provided a perfect opportunity for the United States to grow economically while at the same time enhancing and flexing its political power on the world stage. President Woodrow Wilson’s idealist approach to the end of the war clashed with those who held more realist, hardline approach—a debate that continues today in figuring out how to handle the Middle East. While World War I was not the first time the United States executed an internationalist agenda, the Great War served as the first time in the country’s history that the United States transitioned from unilateralism to unhindered internationalism. In this essay, I will argue that the United States’ shift from its unilateral policies to policies

Understanding other people's struggles can only be achieved when looking at things from both point of views. The two poems “The White Man's Burden” by R. Kipling and “The Black Man’s Burden” by Reverend H.T. Johnson, both talk about the burdens they posses. The white man wants someone to take on their burden and help civilize the Filipinos while the black man is calling the white man's burden absent. The black man just wants their burden to be recognized, and somewhat appreciated. Both of the poems use diction, tone and figurative language to express their view on the burdens of life.

Throughout the Victorian Age, there was great controversy surrounding the relationship between religion and science. During this era, writers began investigating the idea of natural forces modifying organisms throughout their existence rather than God creating every organism with specific attributes to meet their needs. As a result, the ideology known as Darwinism emerged throughout the age. Later in the era, Darwinism was tweaked to describe the intricacies of human society and the varying levels of human economic and social classes. Social Darwinism was established in the second half of the 19th century based off of the Darwinist ideologies suggested by naturalists Robert Chambers, Charles Darwin, and Herbert Spencer. Social Darwinism applies