Imperialism

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deciding
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 trade as ...

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