Sosita Thapa
History 109
Argument Detection Paper
American Anglo - Saxons ideology was used internally to support the power and to protect existing racial mass, and externally to shape the destiny of much of the world. American Anglo- Saxons, as a “superior race”, ought to bring the political as well as economic changes that would make possible stability throughout the world. These arguments were used to justify the takeover of thinly populated areas and the economic penetration of areas that were heavily populated with “inferior” races, incapable of sharing American’s system and doomed to permanent extinction.
Before the nineteenth century, there was never a specific term to define “Anglo- Saxons” people. Later it became less precise and
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This literary image of the Indian as a complex, tragic figure was to a large extent offset by the literature and by the novels figures such as Robert Montgomery Bird, who depicted the Indian as an expendable wild beast when he published his Nick of the Woods in 1837. The scientific attack on the Indian as inferior and expendable gave many Americans the backing they needed for long-assumed beliefs that the Indians as slaveowners were to accept scientific attacks on the blacks. In the first half of the nineteenth century the experience of the United States with the Indians helped to convince many Americans that the expansion might mean the extinction of inferior races to transform their way of life leading further world progress. As American hopes of creating a policy based on Enlightenment ideals of human equality failed, and as they relentlessly drove the Indians from all areas desired by the whites, Americans transferred their own failure to the Indians and condemned the Indians …show more content…
The most Americans believed that the Mexicans lacked the innate ability to fight a war against United States and that United States was carrying Mexicans freedom and their regeneration was to take place. Many reflected racial stereotypes of the Mexicans in writings at the beginning of the war. Often poets wrote in an older, idealistic tradition, some added sexual overtones to the image of the liberating energy into Mexico. The stereotype of exotic, receptive Mexican women, and lazy, inept Mexican men sank deep into the American racial