Social Darwinism

Chapter 19 covered a period spanning from 1800-1914 and although there were several topics in the chapter the one i found most interesting was the idea of social darwinism. Social darwinism is basically a myth. Europeans realized that many animals had been affected by darwinism aka evolution. So darwinism was applied to the human creature. For the most part the social chain started with the white man at the top, followed by an Asian, then an Native American, then a Indian, then a black man, and lastly a monkey. I felt that this was a very ignorant hypothesis. Im also confident that the fellow who thought it up was a white man and considered himself intelligent. However, it is not a surprise that this was an idea, after all europeans founds most other races extremely weaker and felt they had a superior white race. This also ties into europeans reasoning in there "duty to civilize" other races, which i feel could be related to the united states in present day. Social darwinism was basically biology and evolution being confused, and although there may be some truth to humans evolving from monkeys this is an over analyzation in my opinion.