Enlightenment Racism Michael

Enlightenment Racism Michael Nenonen November 12, 2008 (from The Republic) The belief that other societies were “less evolved” than European civilization was used to justify European domination of the globe. This domination was portrayed as the “White Man’s Burden”, the noble responsibility of the Enlightened West to drag backwards people into a beneficent modernity. In doing so,

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