Module 3 - SLP Challenges in East Asia, 1800-1912
Following a remarkable voyage around the globe, Charles Darwin wrote, in his The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection in 1859, that nature favored characteristics most suitable to particular environments:
thus, the fittest would survive longest and breed the most.
Darwin's theories were path breaking for the time but were unfortunately used and extended towards humans to serve as a rationale for Imperialism.
This SLP will look at how this came about and why.
Read the information in the background material, look for more information, and then write a 2 to 3 pages paper answering the following question:
How did the idea of Social Darwinism fuel Europeans to see themselves as morally superior to those they ruled?
Assignment Expectations:
you are expected to:
· Describe the purpose of the paper and conclusion.
· Answer the case assignment questions clearly and provide necessary details.
· Provide a quality argument; that is, no poor sentence structure, no spelling and grammar mistakes or run-on sentences.
· Provide citations to support your argument and references on a separate page.