Social Darwinism

Darwinism is the idea that the plant or animal that adapts the best will survive and reproduce.

This is called Natural Selection because nature chooses the ones who will survive.

This is also called Survival of the Fittest.

Social Darwinism is a racist idea that combined Darwin's ideas of natural selection and Herbert Spenser's idea that societies evolve from lower (barbarians) to higher (civilized).

Europeans and white societies believed their cultures were civilized, and African and Asian cultures were barbarians.