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It is wished that the world could eliminate the racial discrimination in future and every person could be treated equally. Then the community should have a clear genetic decision to improve eugenics. Social Darwinism accelerated the death of indigenous Australians. In biology, the competition of various organisms can result in the death of a species or organism. 0000019503 00000 n Most of Social Darwinism in 21st century supports the improvement of working conditions and higher wages in order to give the poor the opportunity to feed themselves, so that self-sufficiency is better than those who are lazy, weak or poor. Influenced by the theories of Social Darwinism, many indigenous Australians were treated cruel and populations of indigenous Australians were reduced very much. <<94444A03681F474499FA7D4AAAF4AF7C>]>> Twitter Based on Eugenics Theory, about 100,000 children with indigenous blood were taken away from their families.

At the same time, these children did not know who were their parents and thought they were orphans. Company Registration No: 4964706.

This concept thinks that the core of Darwinism-natural selection is a common phenomenon in the human society. 0000010789 00000 n The term, Social Darwinism, came into popular usage in the early part of the twentieth century.

The theory itself did not contain any political position and it has ever been linked with politics. The Racial Theories of Social Darwinism were used to justify settler treatment of the indigenous Australians, as ‘subhuman’, ‘primitive’ and an ‘inferior race’.

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(Read, 2001) Today, indigenous Australians share equal rights with other racial people in spite of existence of racial discrimination. Settler policy believed that white, Christian families and boarding schools was the best environment in which to raise Aboriginal children. It took the concept of evolution from Darwinism and applied it to the hierarchy of social classes. �u�U$�u�,�3��:��Y�K�RKV�T�m�7�>�8�~���_f1I`٨��̌����7�/��_���}�Cs������]��׶>_�����ۦۅ�ݏ~_����nw��������Ưǟ���6ۺ��ԛ��~���ݣﺠt��>Q�6���P?���=�/O�3��7_���G�yy��zs~��z����su��7~�?�

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