How Did Imperialism Benefit Spending Country

Why Imperialism Benefits Only the Invading Country At the turn of the industrial revolution, countries left and right began to unify creating bigger and stronger nations. With the creation of these new countries, a new sense of identity came along called, nationalism. Nationalism was a way someone identified themselves as being a citizen from a certain country, unlike before as being part as a religion. This new sense of national pride helped unify countries but also put all of Europe in a competition with each other. One way this competition was fought was with imperialism. Imperialism allowed for more trade with new developing countries, which meant more economic power for each country involved, in theory. This is argued by Cecil Rhodes,
But doing so is done using unconventional ways. Such as using ways of war in the, “forcible seizure of territory.” (Hobson, 249) By doing this, the country who’s lands are being taken away have no say in the incoming foreigners. But by using ways of wars to take their lands isn’t the only part of imperialism Hobson argues. He also argues that due to social darwinism, the Europeans who want imperialism would, “take their lands and live upon their labors.” (Hobson, 250) By doing this it is not fair to the natives who’s lands they took away from them with just the idea of using it to better the europeans countries and not the
They saw it almost as a divine right in a way that they were the most fit people on this Earth according to Social Darwinism. Rhodes goes all the way saying that, “I contend that we are the finest race in the world and that the more of the world we inhabit the better it is for the human race.” (Rhodes, 243). This was a common mind frame at the time, with the idea being that this was the survival of the fittest and that imperialism was actually doing these countries a favor. As the, “lesser people” could not advance without their help (Pearson,