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Social Darwinism Research Paper

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Social Darwinism is a theory based on the laws of natural selection by Charles Darwin, adapting the idea of "survival of the fittest" to society. The theory was very popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and adopted by the major nations as a form of justification of their domination over the weak countries. I believe that Social Darwinism can not be blamed as solely responsible for the imperial domination of Africa, India and China, but rather seen as a pretext for the countries sense of nationalism, that is, the idea that a nation is above others in many ways. For example, the Europeans held the belief that they were superior to Africa and colonized the continent through the Berlin Conference with no consideration to those who
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