The Victorians: Empire and Race - Professor Richard Evans
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- Science and religion came together to help shape the attitudes of the British and Europeans towards the rest of the world, whose inhabitants were increasingly regarded as socially inferior and spiritually ignorant. This lecture looks at how these ideas framed the growth of overseas Empire in the latter part of the nineteenth century, how Britain and those European states that possessed colonies governed them and what were the consequences for politics and ideology at home, above all in the growth of the Social Darwinism, racism and extreme nationalism that led to the end of the 'Victorian' era in the First World War.
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Nice & balanced. Well done.
Brilliant!
THE 'MISSIONARIES' WERE SPIES.
Really? Spies for whom? The governments of the countries from which they came? What evidence is there for that?
In reality, missionaries on the ground were the people most likely to associate with the locals, which made then the very Europeans most likely to see them as individual human beings instead of as abstractions.
Intelligence *is* hereditary. We just can't tease out how much of a person's ability comes from native intelligence and how much from social factors.
BUT RACE IS A MYTH.
@@jimmyjohnston8287 Maybe. Maybe not. But what evidence is there that one race is "inherently inferior" to another; or even if such is the case, that the vast majority of individuals of one race are less intelligent or moral than the vast majority of individuals of another?
It seems to me that the primary fallacy of racism is that generalizations necessarily apply to all members of the groups concerned; and the most important and least utilized weapon against it is the treatment of people as individuals instead of as members of groups. The latter is, of course, much easier if one regularly associates with persons not of one's own "tribe", which is why racists are usually eager to impose and maintain segregation ("fraternization with the enemy" being the most effective known means of turning enemies into friends).
Yurigan
Nonsense.