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What Is Survival Of The Fittest?

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Natural selection, often referred to as “survival of the fittest” is usually the go to explanation as to how a certain society functions. Describing U.S. history, culture, and society can all related back to this natural law, but the question that arises is how can we go beyond this one explanation?
While revising my keyword blogs I tried to use examples that demonstrate my understanding of the keyword. When I began thinking of the historic examples that I would use to explain my perception of the term, I thought of why those events occurred rather than how because the why made it easier to connect the example back to the keyword. Along with the new examples, I tried to commit to a proper structure of the essay. I completely restructured …show more content…

While writing I began to understand why it is important to learn the mistakes of the past so that they do not occur in the future. An institution is an ideology which has entrenched itself into society and governs people’s behavior. Ideologies are a set of beliefs about the world held by a group of people. The ideologies that institutions are constructed upon are upheld by the same institution. Institutions have been vital in developing America to what it is today. For example, Roman Catholics and Protestant dissenters were forced to conform to the Penal laws. These laws were initially merely ideologies, in which Protestant beliefs in society were treated as the true way of governing people’s behavior. In his essay, Ignatiev described how “the Penal Laws regulated every aspect of Irish life, civil, domestic, and spiritual. In effect they established Ireland as a country in which Irish Catholics formed an oppressed race”(Ignatiev 35). By regulating every aspect of Irish Catholic life, the Penal laws created an institution which in turn, upheld the ideology that Protestants were above the Catholics. Another example of an institution would include United Farm Workers Union, which found its roots from the ideology of Filipino Manongs who believed that the should have a livable wage as workers. The Manongs along with the Chicano’s of Delano went on a strike which eventually led to the creation of the United Farm Workers Union. When a farmer wanted a worker,

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