Cecil Rhodes has returned from South Africa to negotiate the sale of diamonds to a new jewelry store in London. On his way out of his office, he is faced with a mob of protesters holding up signs saying he is a thief, a killer, and that he will go to Hell. He then asks the protesters to stop yelling at him so he can explain himself and why he colonizes poor countries in Africa. You must write what he would say, using both the theories of Social Darwinism and the White Man's Burden as his ways of explaining to the crowd that not only is he a good man, but that what he is doing is better for Africa than doing nothing.

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Jonas Ramsey

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15 June, 20:53

Cecil Rhodes has returned from South Africa to negotiate the sale of diamonds to a new jewelry store in London. On his way out of his office, he is faced with a mob of protesters holding up signs saying he is a thief, a killer, and that he will go to Hell. He then asks the protesters to stop yelling at him so he can explain himself and why he colonizes poor countries in Africa. You must write what he would say, using both the theories of Social Darwinism and the White Man's Burden as his ways of explaining to the crowd that not only is he a good man, but that what he is doing is better for Africa than doing nothing.

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Killian Marshall · Answer 1

the social Darwinism effect on imperialism was a justification that life was about survival for the fittest. The white man was therefore the supreme race, fittest to take over the African world.

The white man burden was a justification for imperialism that implied that the white man had to go out and civilize the black man before he did more harm to himself.