Social Darwinism
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This job highlights the main ideas of Social Darwinism and why it is uniquely popular in the United States.
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Social Darwinism's American popularity is suggested.
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Social Darwinism is based on an adaptation of Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection that attempts to explain the evolution of species to explain competition between human individuals, groups, or even nations.
Reasons that explain why social Darwinism had great appeal in the United States is that America, when compared to many other countries, has an economic system that is more capitalist in orientation and American culture is more individualist than many others. As a country that expanded with pioneers pushing the frontier and building settlements in an often hostile wilderness with little contact with centralized or even local governing authorities, the American culture or "spirit" has been described as ruggedly individualistic in nature; a factor that can be observed in ...
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