The belief that white, wealthy, Anglo-Saxon Americans were biologically superior to other groups fueled many social and political trends of the Gilded Age.
Log in imamulhaq 8 years agoPosted 8 years ago. Direct link to imamulhaq's post “How do these ideas of a r...” How do these ideas of a race being higher than another even come to be? • (22 votes) Kelso 4 years agoPosted 4 years ago. Direct link to Kelso's post “The reasoning can be take...” The reasoning can be taken back to many factors, but one is that serfs worked in fields darkening their skin (due to sun exposure) and nobles would lighten their skin with make up and the fact that they were not in the sun for extended periods of time. This is one reason that the idea of darker skin being inferior came to play. (13 votes) Ray 8 years agoPosted 8 years ago. Direct link to Ray's post “Charles Darwin is a theor...” Charles Darwin is a theory of biological evolution developed in the English naturalist. The ideas of social Darwinism had influence politics and society in the Glided Age by the majority of those who have been categorized as social Darwinisms that identify themselves by such a label which helped. In my opinion the governments role in aiding the poor, personally I really dont know everybody says the government should be doing more but I doubt its role is aiding the poor because its trying its best • (8 votes) Harriet Buchanan 7 years agoPosted 7 years ago. Direct link to Harriet Buchanan's post “The government shouldn't ...” The government shouldn't try to do anything regarding the genetics of poor people. If anything, the government should try to improve the health, education and living conditions of poor children so that they can excel in the same things as the children of the rich. What the poor need is opportunity. (44 votes) Angie Casi 5 years agoPosted 5 years ago. Direct link to Angie Casi's post “This begs the question _w...” This begs the question when/if designer babies become a normal, do yall think social Darwinism will come back to society? • (12 votes) Frank Tauvar 5 years agoPosted 5 years ago. Direct link to Frank Tauvar's post “I feel like it would in a...” I feel like it would in all honesty since, the designer babies would feel they are more developed than other babies and the parents will be like "Hey my kid now has a built-in calculator while your kid still has to do his math by hand... have fun getting your kid into college" and people would act bratty against normals. (10 votes) rpixley9006 3 years agoPosted 3 years ago. Direct link to rpixley9006's post “What exactly does Social ...” What exactly does Social Darwinism refer to? I have also heard that it means "some people are inherently better poised to succeed" (an explanation of wealth inequality), but here it just sounds like a synonym for racism. • (4 votes) Bennett 3 years agoPosted 3 years ago. Direct link to Bennett's post “"Social Darwinism" refers...” "Social Darwinism" refers to a wide range of different beliefs, sometimes at odds with itself. The two major definitions are the idea that there are biological reasons why there is wealth inequality (that rich people are biologically superior), and the other is the idea that there are biological reasons for racial inequality (that white people are biologically superior). fts9074 7 years agoPosted 7 years ago. Direct link to fts9074's post “Why was social darwinism ...” Why was social darwinism used as a justification? • (2 votes) Taylor Bills 6 years agoPosted 6 years ago. Direct link to Taylor Bills's post “Because without justifica...” Because without justification, these groups would be perceived as morally wrong, but with Social Darwinism, they had nature on their side and left no room for a conscience. (11 votes) John Ma 7 years agoPosted 7 years ago. Direct link to John Ma's post “Apart from mass immigrati...” Apart from mass immigration to America, what other events caused the spread of social darwinism? • (2 votes) Jonathan Ziesmer 7 years agoPosted 7 years ago. Direct link to Jonathan Ziesmer's post “Big businesses were looki...” Big businesses were looking for ways to justify their occasionally questionable acts. Someone realized Darwin's theory of natural selection might be applicable. Lots of businesses started using it to explain their actions, and it kind of took off from there. (7 votes) Esther Gammelgaard 9 months agoPosted 9 months ago. Direct link to Esther Gammelgaard's post “Darwin's Theory of Evolut...” Darwin's Theory of Evolution: It's about how animals and plants change over time. The ones with useful traits survive and pass those traits to their kids. Spencer's Idea: This is about taking Darwin's ideas to people and society. It says that in society, competition should be free, with little government help. Influence in Gilded Age: In the Gilded Age, Social Darwinism was used to justify rich people getting richer and poor people staying poor. • (5 votes) Zeporiah Braddy 7 years agoPosted 7 years ago. Direct link to Zeporiah Braddy's post “How does differ from Hebe...” How does differ from Hebert's Spencer's idea of social Darwinism • (3 votes) Claudia pelatti 7 years agoPosted 7 years ago. Direct link to Claudia pelatti's post “These ideas inspired the ...” These ideas inspired the eugenics movement of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, which sought to improve the health and intelligence of the human race by sterilizing individuals it deemed "feeble-minded" or otherwise "unfit." Eugenic sterilizations, which disproportionately targeted women, minorities, and immigrants, continued in the United States until the 1970s. (1 vote) chhuon.menglin a year agoPosted a year ago. Direct link to chhuon.menglin's post “In accordance with the ar...” In accordance with the article aforementioned, the theory of evolution invented by Charles Darwin basically lays foundation for the growth and change of living things, such as plants, and animals, that animals compete to find food,yet not to kill one another. Herbert Spencer's idea of social Darwinism referred to the economic and wealth of people. Evidently, Spencer focused on the business that boomed because those magnates were biologically superior which meant they were fit. On the contrary, the poor were prejudiced as being naturally born with inferior biological structures. From political standpoint, I would simply say that the powerful leaders will be considered as the fittest people in their territories. Perhaps, leaders need to be strong, potent in order to be fit. Likewise, people live in a society where they are separated into different classes like high-income, middle-income, and low-income groups can lead to class divisions. • (3 votes) Julia Isidro 7 years agoPosted 7 years ago. Direct link to Julia Isidro's post “Were there any significan...” Were there any significant people or parties that disagreed with the idea of social darwinism? • (2 votes)Want to join the conversation?
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