Judgement On Imperialism In The United States

Judgement on Imperialism Imperialism is the belief that a nation must expand in order to become stronger, whether it involves the use of military or diplomatic force. Most Imperial nations colonized in other nations that they believed were “savage” or “uncivilized”. The Imperial nations did not care or need consent of the nations of which they were colonizing, they had done this by force. Those being colonized weren’t strong or advanced enough to prevent their colonization.

Imperialism is of survival of the fittest; the weak lose their land and the strong get what they want. Imperialism left a bad impression to those who had never seen foreigners. This caused the people of the weaker nations to hate those of the other race, the foreigners.
Imagine you working hard on a project that took you weeks to do and then having some random person take it and says it is theirs, and you can’t do anything about it. Imperialist nations used ideals to help justify why they wanted to exercise Imperialism. For example, Social Darwinism which basically stated that the strongest will survive.
There were some Imperialist ideals of helping the colonized nations become more modern, instead of just taking their land and not giving something in return.
Their ideals were to educate those who lacked education, introduce or convert them to the Colonizing Nation’s religion, and to make the colony’s society more advanced. Though these are great ideals, some colonized nations already had what the Imperialist Nations had to offer.
Imperialism was a competition for those who were involved in it. The one’s with the most land, resources, and the best army were the ones who were considered the strongest. Germany believed that in participation in Imperialism, their military will strengthen and ,in doing so, protect their nation (Task 39). While all the Imperial nations were fighting for who had the most power, the colonist nations were being treated unequally.
The Philippines were in the process of being annexed by America. America’s main intentions to occupy the Philippines were to control foreign trade, to have trade routes to major exporting countries and expand territory and exercise military control. Their justification to annex was to help educate and introduce Catholicism into the Philippines even though most Filipinos were already Catholic. Filipino rebellions occurred which caused the Filipino-American war
(1889-1902).

"The Philippines." United States Imperialism. 25 Sept. 2008. Web. 16 Dec. 2014. <http://unitedstatesimperialism.wordpress.com/the-philippines/>.

Australia was occupied by the British in 1788; their motive was to “civilize” the “uncivilized” parts of the world. The natives of Australia did not favor the British and regularly conflicted with them. The British also brought diseases that were foreign to the land of Australia, which caused many deaths of the natives.

"___ History of Australia." History of Australia. Web. 16 Dec. 2014. <http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/History/Australia-history.htm>.

None of the colonized nations enjoyed being raped of their land, resources, and rights through the competition of Imperialism. I believe that Imperialism is a selfish way to build nationalism in your nation. In order to become strong through Imperialism, you must hurt others. Sadly, those others were the colonized nations that were less advanced and weak. I believe that the colonized nations built a stronger form of nationalism as they revolted and grew hatful of the Imperial Nations that colonized them. Imperialism is not an equal way of thinking, that is why America is now a democracy, because we believe in diverse equality.