HISTORY
IMPERIALISM ASIA
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Survival of the fittest in society
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The idea that some races are better than others
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The idea that you need to “civilize” other cultures
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Detailed explanation-1: -Examples of the application of social Darwinism include the United States in the Gilded Age and Imperial Japan. Other examples include the Third Reich policies in Nazi Germany and the Armenian Genocide in the USSR.
Detailed explanation-2: -There are four principles at work in evolution-variation, inheritance, selection and time. These are considered the components of the evolutionary mechanism of natural selection.
Detailed explanation-3: -In fact, it is so simple that it can be broken down into five basic steps, abbreviated here as VISTA: Variation, Inheritance, Selection, Time and Adaptation.
Detailed explanation-4: -Social Darwinism is the study and implementation of various theories and societal practices that purport to apply biological concepts of natural selection and survival of the fittest to sociology, economics and politics, and which were largely defined by scholars in Western Europe and North America in the 1870s.
Detailed explanation-5: -Social Darwinism refers to a set of theories and social practices that apply Darwin’s natural selection to other domains, notably the development of societies. There are two notable early theories of social Darwinism: Spencerism and Taylorism.