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Examples Of Social Darwinism

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During the 19th century a philosopher named Herbert Spencer pushed the idea of social Darwinism. The simple idea of Social Darwinism is the economic survival of the fittest. The theory of Social Darwinism was to promote white Europeans as superior. During that time the Europeans had better technology, economy, and their government was more advanced than many other cultures at that time. The worst that social darwinism was ever implicated was when the Nazis tried to wipe out the jews. So with Social Darwinism if you did not make much money you probably would not be able to survive. During
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