He states, “Mr. President and Directors, … I say that in no way have the value and manhood of the American Negro been more fittingly and generously recognized than by the managers of this magnificent Exposition.” This statement shows that Washington wants to begin civilized discourse about race and makes the audience feel that they are making the effort to create social progress. He continues by arguing that this social progress will bring “a new era of industrial progress,” which is exactly what wealthy landowners would want for the future. In addition to this, Washington shows that he is educated by speaking “proper” English, rather than a vernacular. These two factors combine to set the stage for Washington to make an argument that the audience will listen to.!
Jefferson wanted a government that did not have all the power. He believed the states should rule their own destiny. After election, Jefferson planed to mold the country in a way he saw fit and a way that would set the country up for success in the future. One way this was planned was through education. Jefferson believed all white men should have the chance to receive a free education.
Diamond’s theory is based on the idea that, given ideal circumstances, the Papua New Guineans would have reached the same level of technological advancement as Western societies. He goes so far as to comment that “If your people had enjoyed the same geographic advantages as my people, your people would have been the ones to invent helicopters” (Guns). According to Diamond, the protein-rich diet available to Europeans is the primary reason other societies did not reach the same level of “advancement.” This belief adheres to the very early anthropological theory of unilineal evolution, in which the complex concept of civilization and culture is divided into simple stages, as if it were “geology…or the life cycle of plants” (Crandall 6). In contrast, Franz Boaz pioneered the concept of “cultural relativism,” dismissing unilineal evolution as a ridiculous theory. He acknowledged the effect one’s cultural framework has on the viewing of different cultures, asking “what advantages our ‘good society’ possesses over that of ‘savages’” (Crandall 13).
2. While there are many reasons to prevent slavery from being abolished, maintain the social order and economic gain are possibly two of the strongest reasons to keeping slavery. White Americans do not need any more competition in their lives, and with freed slaves this would create less jobs, money, or political strength within the colonies. Whites must keep their superiority in order to maintain status quo. Men are entitled to own slaves and this right has always been protected.
Missionaries did their job of preaching that the savages of the world need to be civilized and Christianized. Thus, the United States began to become very nationalistic, and tensions with foreign powers began to rise. Kipling’s “White Man’s Burden” gave a call to the white population of the United States to reach out and ‘civilize’ the rest of the world With the White Man’s Burden and the widespread dogma of social Darwinism, the United States also started taking advantage of the fact that it could make quite a fortune by doing what it felt was ‘right’. Roosevelt’s quote, “Our endeavors overseas are not for the purpose of empire, but rather salvation.” spoke of what the ‘White Man’ was supposed to do. The United States claimed they weren’t taking advantage of the Cubans, Filipinos, and Hawaiians because of imperialistic measures, but because it was what the ‘needed’ to do.
Washington’s views on "racial progress" were that offered black acquiescence in disenfranchisement and social segregation if whites would back the idea of black progress in education, agriculture, and economics. Agriculture to Washington was one of the soul ideas of his "racial progress" theory. Washington argued that the focus of African-Americans should be education on a trade so that they could be taught the skills they needed to be able to open up their own businesses. That would lead to African-Americans to create jobs for other African-Americans. Washington felt blacks shouldn’t worry about winning civil rights, but rather have some kind of economic stability first.
To be as successful as possible it was in the best interest to be an Empire. With the rise of empires comes a social change. This includes mix of cultures, belief and dominance. Biological exchange includes the exchange of disease, food, animals and people. The New World’s isolation from the rest of the world effected peoples of the Americas immunities being weaker than the rest of the world.
Their altruistic behavior was seen by the settlers as foolish and saw the natives as unworthy to inhabit it. In the book, The Wealth of Nations, written by Scottish philosopher Adam Smith in 1776, he introduces the concept of a free market economy and its benefits. This promotes the idea of competition, which Smith says fosters innovation and the advancement in society. Essentially, the settlers felt that without economy as a driving force in the lives of the Native American’s, they would be continuously living in an endless age of basic technology. Another reason for the oppression of the Native Americans is due to religious views.
Affirmative action is a great contribution to this wonderful nation. When it was created affirmative action was to make minorities equal with whites and give them the same chances as the whites. How ever people like Joseph Phillips say affirmative action is not a way to fight racism. He says affirmative action is revers racism because whites get less of
S. Gold mentioned that in his article and attributed it to David Stoll. However, this is a conclusion reached based on the issues raised by the part of the American population that sees only the detrimental side of immigration. That attitude is one of fear and paranoia. There has always been a part of society that is very concerned about the purity of the White race. Many of the reasons that the original colonies chose to break from the British and the reason other Europeans came to this country was to live freely, worship freely and create a less repressive society.