Social Darwinism Continues to Surface Under Different Names, but the Basic

question 30

Multiple Choice

Social Darwinism continues to surface under different names, but the basic point of these theories is the same, that

• A) the poor are poor because they are genetically inferior.
• B) the poor are poor because they are culturally inferior.
• C) when poor people rise from poverty, their genes improve to the same degree.
• D) when middle-class or wealthy people lose their wealth, it is because they are genetically inferior.

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