Monday, March 26, 2007

Social Darwinism


When rich or more powerful people believe they are better then poorer less successful people. Or a race that believes it is superior over other races because of minor facial differences. The theory of survival of the fittest or Darwinism was thought up in the animal kingdom where if they evolved they are clearly the leading species taking the elements and adapting to them when others are being killed off. Humans took this theory into them with the belief that if they have more money or are stronger and better off they are surviving and others are being left behind. German Nazi parties applied this concept to kill of the Jewish the handicapped and the homosexuals during world war 2. He used the concept and said they are unfit for survival we are better then them so they deserve to die. It was like an excuse to eliminate people because they are different or inferior. This concept has brought lots of trouble in the world. It makes people feel horrible and as if they have no purpose when they are showed up by the "upper class". This belief came in with the colonizing of Africa. The European countries walked in to a country that they believed was inferior and made them work, go to war, and give their resources because they are the better society or people. It is not a good concept for our social world because now we have to work against it. We have to get the point across that everyone is equal. The people that are still using the concept are now wrong. The fact that this concept went so far with one race trying to completely eliminate another, and slaves being mistreated for many years. Still racism and hatred going on in the world today is unacceptable and no one is better than anyone unless you separate the good people from the bad.