Examples Of Social Darwinism In The White Man's Burden

During this Age of Progress from around the 1870's to 1890's, countries began to experience anxiety because they had trouble figuring out how humans worked. A great example is Siegmund Frued's psychoanalysis system which tried to prove how the human mind works, but now we know today it is very flawed. Herbert Spencer created his Social Darwinism theory stating that the strong countries are strong and "fit" to survive, and that the weak will die out. This caused more anxiety, so people mindlessly followed

Social Darwinism is based on Charles Darwin’s concept of evolution but implied to society. It takes on a survival of the fittest agenda while using natural selection to “weed out” the weak from the majority of society. The “we” would be white people, specifically white men, and the “they” would be the people they enslaved or forcibly ruled over. In Rudyard Kipling’s poem, “The White Man’s Burden” he based this on the people of the Philippines after the Spanish-American War when America had won. In

pleasing and easier to think about. In this example, it is a person deciding to choose between consuming animal products and not eating them because they do not want the animal’s death on their conscience. However, more severe cases of people using cognitive dissonance are seen throughout history. One of them is imperialism. The nature of imperialism is a power with high technology taking over another society because their technology is not as efficient. An example of this can be seen when Britain took

The nineteenth century was a time of sudden change and disruption of politics and social changes within modern Europe. Holding to traditional attitudes and values of the past gave way to new ideas of equality and socialism which disputed the traditions of European society. Through important political leaders and philosophers- liberalism, nationalism, and socialism created a time bomb throughout Europe in the mid-1800s, resulting in massive revolutions. Within a century, class struggles grew even

The author, Gregory Claeys’s central argument of this article is that the survival of the fittest was a natural concept and then was altered into a social concept. He used historical data to support his claim. He looks at some critical nineteenth-century origins of the idea of “survival of the fittest,” which came to support large portions of the social and political beliefs later connected with the concept of natural selection. Malthus, a scholar, does not agree with the poor’s right to charity and

Gutenberg Johannes Gutenberg invented the first movable-printing press in the fifteenth century. The printing press affected Europe’s political, cultural, economic, and social development in the centuries that followed. According to Reader, “The eighteenth century saw a rapid expansion in the publication of books, periodicals, and pamphlets, which allowed wide dissemination of these new ideas, and with that, the early stages of public opinion” (24). The availability of paper and spreading of books

died in 1963. Though he lived over thirteen years there, the reader finds that his works espouse the imperial ideology and he came to be recognized as a "prophet of the British imperialism"(Orwell 116). And this is well manifested in his poem "The White

territories colonized in Asia and Africa. When the European powers had gained control over territories they forced the natives to reject their own cultures and values to learn the European’s  “civilized” ways (Document 2). This was due to the belief of Social Darwinism which made Europeans believe that due to their race they were more superior and more civilized (Notes). Thus, many European powers believed that it was their duty to civilize the territories that they viewed as underdeveloped and uncivilized

The resolution of the German Social Democratic Party Congress also furthers the anti imperialist sentiment that existed during this time, by explaining that “Capitalist exploitation… corresponds first and foremost to the greedy desire of the bourgeoisie for new opportunities to invest

Due to Darwin’s survival of the fittest theory, a prejudiced distinctive form of Social Darwinism developed known as eugenics which is the study that all inferior social groups should be sterilized to prevent the increase in inferior population. Eugenics is the belief that people who are unfit continue to reproduce more unfit offsprings, creating a unfit population, therefore needs to be sterilized. Eugenicists believe that the masses of people who were deficient in intelligence are a real “danger