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Title : Western Imperialism and Racism
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of Imperialism, world powers constantly tried Support our Sponsors
Title : Western Imperialism and Racism
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In the age of Imperialism, world powers constantly tried to expand their
boundaries. Much of the time they disregarded the native populations or
stereotypes around them that suited their colonial needs. Imperialism
clash of cultures. Colonial European and Japanese power expanded into Asia
and Africa. The British, French, Dutch and Americans considered themselves
eminent right to expansion with domain over the native cultures. Their
were above the people who lived in their colonial empires not only
respect but also gave rise to a racist style of thinking.
First, this colonial movement wiped out mutual respect between the
power and the previously sovereign state; the Europeans clung to it
fiercely though. “This was not simply a matter of domination,” says John
Introduction to Contemporary History. Although it may have been nothing
crude, militaristic, undermining need for power that drove the Europeans
they saw it differently. Europeans saw their massive expansion at the
nineteenth century as the opening of a new era. They thought they were
greater civilization to the backward, non-white, non-European world
They saw it as their duty. If non-Europeans could not promote trade,
their economy and create a better (as the Europeans believed), more
then the colonial powers would have to do it for them. “It was useless to
European skills to backward countries withou...