St Stithians Discursive History Essay on Scientific Racism and it 's impact Kyle Furlong Though out many years racism was a big thing, as we can see in the genocide on Nazi Germany and South Africans, apartheid. Also all the slavery (in USA) and the Aboriginal killing in Australia where a 100 000 Aboriginal children we 're taken from their family in the years (1910-1970). It all started with Darwin 's theories on "survival of the fittest" this was meant to be used on animals and plants saying that they can 't survive in another habitat such a polar bear trying to survive in Africa (it can 't because of the heat). But over time Herbert Spencer applied this to humans. It can 't be argued that Darwin 's theories effected the way people believed in Racism, however this is what the …show more content…
However it can be argued that Darwin 's theory contributed to Racism. Social Darwinism had developed a much bigger idea called Eugenics, this was to try stop the inter breeding of two different races, people believed that it will produce better humans in the future. This was just like Charles Darwin 's theory of "survival of the fittest" where in this case if you were not the "fittest" you would be not allowed to breed, such as the Jews in the holocaust. Eugenics was most popular after WW1 were the world population dropped fast, so people wanted to get back to the original population but have "the highest quality of humans" this was were the fit were encouraged to have children. Many people believed in this as they thought that this would, improve the health and fitness of many humans. This whole theory of "survival of the fittest" soon began so big, in Britain the government encouraged people to take holidays and run, walk and cycle around to get "fit". The bad side to this was the sterilization of the "unfit" people and Abortion on "unfit" people. This was made compulsory in Britain 1913 and 35 American States agreed with this policy. Eugenics was one of the worst cases