Social Darwinism is the idea that richer more successful people are better than poorer less successful people. The idea of social Darwinism comes from Darwin’s theory of evolution which is the idea of survival of the fittest. In Darwin’s theory he believes that the better suited animals survive and the weaker animals will die off. Darwin’s ideas about the animal kingdom were adapted to the human social realm in the late 1800's. The fact of the matter is that Darwin himself did not even believe in the idea of social Darwinism, he believed that humans were to superior for this concept. However the elite of society embraced the idea with open arms. Across the world a large portion of high society believed in social Darwinism, as a result they thought they were better than all poorer or less successful people. This plays an extremely important role in the creation of racism. People did not look down on, or treat people from different countries inferior because they were different, but because they truly believed that they were lesser humans because they did not have money. Because high society believed that less successful people were a dying breed and inferior to them, they did not let them have any say in politics and how their country was run. As a result, it was high society that was in control of the world. Because of all of this, the average working man did not have any say in his country or his world. I believe that social Darwinism was a bad idea. I do not believe in social Darwinism at all, it is obvious that people who are rich can be rich for many reasons, none of which render them "physically more superior" to the average person. I believe that if the concept of social Darwinism had never been introduced to the world it would be an entirely different place today. The notion of racism would never have been introduced. Throughout human history there would have been a whole different variety of world leader, and this would probably have resulted in our World being a better place to live.
