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How did social Darwinism impact American culture beyond economic growth ?

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Social Darwinism impacted American culture because it created racial intolerance.

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Social Darwinism is the belief that certain people are powerful because they are better than others and that higher classes had no obligation of helping others. In America, this “philosophy” emerged around the 1870s and it instigated racial intolerance because they preached African Americans were poor because they were unable to be successful.

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