Social Darwinism Essay Kian Fiskerstrand In the 19th and early 20th centuries the theory of Social Darwinism was used against non-white people to justify how they were less evolved and therefore to the Europeans. Non-white people were then treated badly by Europeans during colonisation, being raped, beaten, enslaved and killed. Europeans had then treated them as animals because non-white people were at the same level as animals to Europeans, leading to mass genocide, showing in human zoo's for entertainment and dissection. Europeans then believed all of the theories from Social Darwinism as a science and didn't think of non-whites as anything but animals. Darwinism is the concept of evolution in animals and plants through natural selection, created by Charles Darwin in the 19th century. Social Darwinism is a pseudo science formed from the concept of Darwinism. Social Darwinism was then …show more content…
Europeans would often take non-white people from their people to do various things in the colonies or in Europe, such as working on farms or as domestics as a form of slavery, which was not abolished until long after the end of colonisation. There were also Human Zoos where living people were exhibited to Europeans as a form of entertainment. In these zoos people were either paraded around to show their bodies to Europeans, often wearing little to no clothes. There was also people living in artificial villages showing how they lived back in their home countries. Europeans also thought that foreign people should also be studied, so non-white people were often dissected and studied. The key points that were studied was anything that was not normal in white people, which was most commonly the skull. As a result non-white people became nothing more than animals or a being to be