Social Darwinism-philosophy that used Darwin’s survival of the fittest to justify war and conquering of stronger nations against weaker nations…
Imperialism is when one country dominates or takes over another. Great Britain rapidly grew in the 19th century. India, Asia and parts of Africa joined with them to help expand their territory. Some reasons countries wanted to imperialize other countries is because, of things such as raw materials, military expansion, and to have a balance of power.…
We can also conclude that from Imperialism there comes rivalry between each other and other countries. When two nations or countries try to gain something that they both need or want, they keep in mind that only one of them can have it, and when the time comes where one of the countries or nations gets to the place first, the other country harbors a resentment towards the other place, even if the nations were alliances before. From many sources, they stated that the nations are like wolves, where they take everything they need and even more, and once they have everything they need, they start wanting more and more, and from that greediness we can compare that to the nations that use Imperialism. Once they find something that can be taken, they grasp it without any hesitation, and they only look for their benefit and not the result of the other nation being taken. Only caring about their nations would spike resentment and cause conflict.…
While imperialism can bring social and economic growth it can also be taken too far leading to a power struggle. Smaller countries can be taken advantage of. Thus, others needing a justification for their actions. Countries can feel dominated by the power of others and end up giving up their sense of culture, customs, and even their identity. The basic justification for all countries was that it would provide a better and more productive way of life.…
Another cause of imperialism would be the social forces and ideas of other countries. For example, in document 4, the Britons believed they were the finest race in the world; the more the better. Even though this helped out the Britons it still caused many problems. Racism caused many problems such as killing innocent people and the false accusations of others (OI). Another social aspect would be social Darwinism. This was the teaching that stated only the strongest survive and you should do anything to get there (document 5). Social Darwinism is an ideology of society that seeks to apply biological concepts of evolutionary theory to sociology and politics, often with the assumption that conflict between groups in society leads to social progress as superior groups outcompete inferior ones (OI).…
Supporting Imperialism: three arguments in favor of this ideology 1) Mercantilism Mercantilism has been an important factor in the motivation of governments to expand their empire. In this economic situation, the overseas colonies were in charge of the production of raw materials in order to serve the country. By maximizing imports and exports to a minimum and generally within the empire, the countries that exercised mercantilism hoped to overcome competing nations in the economy. The expansion of the economic scale, according to this policy, is carried out through the expansion of the empire, and an important part of the maintenance of the nation before the others. 2) Resource monitoring…
Between 1898 and 1914, the United States had many strategic, economic, and ethnocentric motivations for practicing Imperialism. While America was imperialist mostly for strategic reasons, strategic and economic factors often coincided, and America’s motivations almost always had undertones of ethnocentrism.…
Imperialists also believed that if we remained isolated, Europe would gain control of the entire globe. Everyone was feeling a sense of competition with other European countries to expand and secure more area. Another imperialist view was the belief in manifest destiny. Manifest destiny was a doctrine for expansion of the U.S throughout the American continents. It was also the belief to expand all the way to the Pacific Ocean.…
Imperialism itself happens for many reasons to the European community. It is embraced as a way to boost nations economies…
Throughout history, we have seen nations form under the common idea for unity and modernization of our country. As time continues, we see strong European countries imperialize other nations for wealth and foreign goods it can control. While some of the methods for gathering these materials were inhumane, unified colonies rose from their backbone of imperialism to become powerful countries such as Venezuela, India, and Canada. That is why a person should believe that imperialism was positive for human kind in the 1800s and early 1900s.…
During the age of European imperialism, strong ideas of cultural pride began to arise. European nations began to expand their empires to other continents, and make use of the resources they gained in doing so. As a result of the spread of European nations, many local people of Asia and Africa were suppressed, assimilated, or killed. Their industrialized subjugators often felt a compulsion to civilize and assimilate foreigners into European practices. Many imperialists felt that it was the burden of civilized nations to drag their barbaric subjects through the gates of progress, even if it came at the cost of life and culture.…
Imperialization came about through the necessity of resources for industrialization and began in the 19th century when industrial progress drove nations to search for new markets for their products. The competition that was fueled by these nations would have lead to all out war without treaties and agreements being made on the side of the conquerors, however, at no time did they consider the desires of the conquered. They did not just claim land, but create social structures similar to theirs, which they believed superior. Many Europeans believed that these “savages” should be civilized and in many cases a group of humanitarians brought in their christian god. These Ethnocentric attitudes led to beliefs of racism and a superiority the…
“evolutionary teaching [about survival of the fittest]” (Document 5). Survival of the fittest is a famous saying that most people know. The strongest live on, and the weak can be seen as just an obstacle. This relates to imperialism because, one main thing about imperialism is taking over another country, and the strong can only take over the weak. “more territory simply means more Anglo – Saxon race, more of the best” (Document 4). Being racist was a big thing during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. They wanted their race to over populate and spread out. These were social aspects that forced imperialism during the nineteenth…
America became an imperialist nation because they wanted to make profit, make money. The nation wanted to be able to compete with others by selling raw materials in order to be one of the leading trade nations. America is always trying to make more money, so the government believed imperialism would bring some in.…
Throughout history many countries have enacted upon a type of foreign policy known as Imperialism. The agenda of a country with an imperialist foreign policy is to increase the size, materials, or power of said country by use of force and or politics. Imperialism was a highly profitable foreign policy and caused cultural diffusion that assimilated many social/economical/political progressions to different countries and cultures. Around this time period many countries began to embark on their own imperialist foreign policy such as, the United States of America, Japan, Great Britain, Germany, France, and Spain. These countries all had different yet similar ideas on their own imperialistic ideas. But all of them were mainly sparked by the main…