Creating Chaos in the World's Social Order

Many theories on the original or "pure" race of mankind have arisen throughout history, usually in cases where the current dominant group is attempting to show their linkages to the first man as a way to prove their dominance. In many of these cases the dominant group is not only trying to prove that they belong to a pure race, but more specifically they are trying to prove that the populations they are currently dominating are impure and therefore inferior to themselves. The dominating peoples, who during imperial times were generally Europeans, observe other societies, identify the differences between those societies and their own and then label these racial and cultural differences as being inferior to their own beliefs. The Europeans developed many conceptions of racial and cultural differences between themselves and the subjects that resided in their extensive colonies, such as it being in the nature of the non-white people to be the slaves of the whites or in some type of servitude to them and the Lockian belief that unless land was being "improved" upon by the current people residing there that land could be appropriated for other uses, and then used these interpretations to dominate non-Europeans.

Prior to the period of colonialism/imperialism social status in European countries was based on a feudal system. The aristocracy in Europe looked upon the serfs or the lower classes as being sub-human and almost a separate and inferior race unto itself. Kenan Malik points out that "the sense of racial superiority that European elite classes felt over non-European society cannot be understood outside of the sense of inferiority imposed upon the masses at home" (Malik 82). As imperialism began to spread,

nationalism became more prevalent among all citizens of the imperial nations and although the lower classes of these countries still remained at a sub-human status there were then becoming groups of people that were placed even lower on the social ladder then the serfs and peasants, such as the Irish first for England and later the Amerindians and finally the Africans.