how did the popularity and acceptance of social Darwinism lead to the classification of some people as inferior who were the superior and who were the inferior how were the inferior people treated differently

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Social Darwinism is a social theory that states that it is possible to apply Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection (survival of the fittest organisms) in human communities.

It was an ideological justification to position the value of one race over another, of the rich over the dispossessed, of the people who knew how to read and write and those who were considered illiterate and ignorant.  

This Eurocentric ideology was used by European imperialist nations to justify the colonization and murder processes of millions of human beings. It was claimed that the European white race was superior and "civilized." While other populations across the planet were considered "wild." Darwin points to a supposed relationship between intellectual faculties and brain size, and says that Europeans have "greater intellectual capacity", while describing the native inhabitants of Asia and Australia as persons with "less capacity."

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