Describe the role that racism played in the emergence of America as a

Describe the role that racism played in the emergence of America as a world power. Include the influence of the ideas of American exceptionalism, Anglo-Saxonism, and Social Darwinism.

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The idea of being a chosen (exceptional) people is deeply rooted in American history. Social Darwinists loaned the concept scientific “proof” (“natural selection,” “fittest”), and Anglo-Saxon supremacists assumed the responsibility of taking up the White Man’s Burden of dominating and uplifting “inferior” (non-white) peoples. They assumed that it was their duty and their destiny.