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– Nelson Mandela

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Week 1 Case Study Contemporary History

Week 1 Case Study

Q After reading the poem, address the following in a case study analysis: • Define social Darwinism in your own words. • Analyze the motivations and consequences that Kipling presents for undertaking the "White Man's Burden." • What specific examples of ethnocentrism can you identify? • Were the "Half-devil and half-child" peoples truly uncivilized?

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Social Darwinism simply means survival of the fittest. According to me, it means evolving oneself to suit the political, economic, and social environment in which one is living. This has been used by many people to justify the inequalities in society as it says that these inequalities develop to suit the environment then and thus, is adopted for the survival. I feel this ideology tells us that the world will be mean and that we have to struggle to exist in this society. We need to change ourselves to adjust in different environments.