WORLD HISTORY

COLONIALISM AND IMPERIALISM

IMPERIALISM IN ASIA

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The view that a nations most “fit” to survive had the right to dominate others
A
Dominator
B
Survivalist
C
Social Darwinism
D
Winner
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Social Darwinists held that the life of humans in society was a struggle for existence ruled by “survival of the fittest, ” a phrase proposed by the British philosopher and scientist Herbert Spencer.

Detailed explanation-2: -Social Darwinists believe in “survival of the fittest”-the idea that certain people become powerful in society because they are innately better. Social Darwinism has been used to justify imperialism, racism, eugenics and social inequality at various times over the past century and a half.

Detailed explanation-3: -The correct option is A True. Charles Darwin: Charles Darwin suggested that evolution works on the concept of survival of the fittest. He stated that individuals in a population, or community, are more likely to survive if they fit into the environmental conditions.

Detailed explanation-4: -Social Darwinism is commonly understood to mean the application of Darwin’s biological theories to the social and cultural realm. In reality, sociocultural evolutionary theories developed in parallel to biological theories, rather than emerging from them.

Detailed explanation-5: -Darwinism is a theory of biological evolution developed by the English naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882) and others, stating that all species of organisms arise and develop through the natural selection of small, inherited variations that increase the individual’s ability to compete, survive, and reproduce.

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