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How does the author argue that racism provided a motivation for Europeans to conquer new colonies?

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But nationalism could be twisted to the idea that one's own nation was superior to other nations, and had a right to rule over them (see "racism", above). ... Nationalism motivated imperialists to take new colonies before their competitors could.
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