By believing that they were the fittest nations on the planet due to economic achievements and growth and set up of an functional civilisation, which included democracy within society, they wanted to fulfil their so-called duty to "Improve all people" by showing the appropriate way and level of how society functions. This included total ignorance of different cultures and customs than the Anglo-Saxon one and placed these consequently lower. This lack of acceptance towards other approaches to live but the western one was part of this period which was based strongly on imperialism (expansion of colonies through naval power) and the theory of social Darwinism, which imposed that the people living within the "white and western" society had the responsibility to "civilize" the "unfit" nations and cultures in a way so they are operation their civilization the same way the western world does. This would be by progressing through industry power and by putting in place governments that are functioning on the same level than the western society one"tms. Finally western cultural traits were also factors that were seen of very importance when constructing this painting. The duty of bringing legal heritage, which included additional
The world fair though had the impact of the U.S. citizens that the government needed to achieve. By convincing the general public that becoming a colonial power was of great importance to the world"tms society and to benefit of the western civilisation, the government did get the financial and sincere support they needed from their citizen in order to compete with other nations such as Spain or Great Britain. The U.S. was considered to be an imperialistic power to which idealistic reasons, such as having an impact on nations through economic, religious and military actions and corrections, were justified through Darwinism. (Wheeler, page102-107 and America - A narrative history, page 144-158)
ole. By believing that they were the fittest nations on the planet due to economic achievements and growth and set up of an functional civilisation, which included democracy within society, they wanted to fulfil their so-called duty to "Improve all people" by showing the appropriate way and level of how society functions. This included total ignorance of different cultures and customs than the Anglo-Saxon one and placed these consequently lower. This lack of acceptance towards other approaches to live but the western one was part of this period which was based strongly on imperialism (expansion of colonies through naval power) and the theory of social Darwinism, which imposed that the people living within the "white and western" society had the responsibility to "civilize" the "unfit" nations and cultures in a way so they are operation their civilization the same w
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