Imperialism

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exactly when help is needed. Also, countries such as Japan
would never have developed, whose primary success was to take the ideas of other nations and
better them.
Stronger countries must interfere in the affairs of weaker nations for the gain of both nations.
A more powerful nation can better its own economy by sharing the resources of other nations and
weaker nations are able to obtain an improved standard of living by learning new technologies that
are more advanced than their own. Third world countries can receive food from stronger nations
and heathen nations can learn to be civilized from missionaries. Imperialism also follows the laws
of social Darwinism, where the “fitter” and more advanced countries must prosper.
An excellent example of how imperialism can benefit a weaker nation as well as a stronger,
more dominant one is the Treaty of Kanagawa in 1854. This treaty, forced upon the Japanese by
the Americans, opened up two Japanese ports to foreign ...

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