Social Darwinism-
The notion that people of a higher social status, were richer, and had more possessions were most likely to survive and thrive, while the weak would die out quickly.
How does the idea of "Survival of the Fittest" or "Only The Strongest Survive" apply to social darwinism? -
The idea of "Survival of the fittest" originally came from a brilliant scientist by the name of Charles Darwin. His idea was that the Animals in the wild that were most suited for their environment were the ones that would live and thrive the longest, while the weaker would die out. When social is added to the word however, it becomes the same idea, except it applies to our daily lives.
How was Social Darwinism used to justify taking over the entire continent of Africa?
Since Darwinism justifies the fact that the weaker and poorer should die out, when the Europeans needed land and resources, when they found that the Africans, for the most part, were poor, weak, uneducated, and inferior to them in terms of strength, using Social Darwinism, they conquered Africa.
Find and provide a link to Rudyard Kipling's poem; "The White Man's Burden" in your blog post. (ask me if you need help)
Take up the White Man's burden--
Send forth the best ye breed--
Go bind your sons to exile
To serve your captives' need;
To wait in heavy harness,
On fluttered folk and wild--
Your new-caught, sullen peoples,
Half-devil and half-child.
Take up the White Man's burden--
In patience to abide,
To veil the threat of terror
And check the show of pride;
By open speech and simple,
An hundred times made plain
To seek another's profit,
And work another's gain.
Take up the White Man's burden--
The savage wars of peace--
Fill full the mouth of Famine
And bid the sickness cease;
And when your goal is nearest
The end for others sought,
Watch sloth and heathen Folly
Bring all your hopes to nought.
Take up the White Man's burden--
No tawdry rule of kings,
But toil of serf and sweeper--
The tale of common things.
The ports ye shall not enter,
The roads ye shall not tread,
Go mark them with your living,
And mark them with your dead.
Take up the White Man's burden--
And reap his old reward:
The blame of those ye better,
The hate of those ye guard--
The cry of hosts ye humour
(Ah, slowly!) toward the light:--
"Why brought he us from bondage,
Our loved Egyptian night?"
Take up the White Man's burden--
Ye dare not stoop to less--
Nor call too loud on Freedom
To cloke your weariness;
By all ye cry or whisper,
By all ye leave or do,
The silent, sullen peoples
Shall weigh your gods and you.
Take up the White Man's burden--
Have done with childish days--
The lightly proferred laurel,
The easy, ungrudged praise.
Comes now, to search your manhood
Through all the thankless years
Cold, edged with dear-bought wisdom,
The judgment of your peers!
