Eugenics Vs Darwinism

Several hypotheses have been put forward to explain the existence and development of species. One of the most common explanation is based on the Darwin theory. It is believed to give the history of existence and development of species. Darwin theory which was also commonly referred to as Darwinism, was a biological evolution based on the idea of species and organisms developed from natural selection of variations of characteristics that help species survive and compete with other species. During the late nineteenth century, however, Darwin’s particular theory of evolution by natural selection, which was also commonly referred to as Darwinism, gradually, lost ground to other scientific explanations for organic revolution (Larson, 2009). Individuals were classified as inferior and a justification of actions caused against them based on Darwinism. The life of immigrants in America was greatly eugenics as well as the aspects of Social Darwinism; while fundamentalist Christians opposed Darwin.
Eugenics affected immigrants because those that came to America during that time experienced racism in a sense. The pride of Americans made them believe that their traits were the best meaning that they were meant to reproduce and that those with undesirable traits were inferior to them. Some thought that those of Nordic ancestry had “traits” of poverty, poor work ethic, and criminality, so the immigrant experience may have felt backlash, due to the social Darwinism was creating these thoughts although these “traits” are not passed on but instead at times inherited because of difficulty to escape these situations. When immigrants came to the United States to live a better life they were instead stuck in the life they wanted to get rid of and this theory made others believe their offspring would be the