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Propaganda plays a large part in the socialization of people. Propaganda targets and appeals to audiences of a culture in hopes of persuading their beliefs to a side. I randomly stumbled upon British propaganda on Google Images and it lead me towards thinking about what propaganda does within a society. It enlists important fundamental ideals that people in power want the masses to believe or ascribe to their collective belief of what is right. In the image above, a little girl looks at her father after asking him the question, "Daddy, what did you do in the Great War?" This was meant to enlist guilt into the hearts of men who did not fight in World War I and let their fellow countrymen fight for their lives.
In this image, we see a woman surrounded by airplanes who looks to be in military clothing. It can be assumed that men are flying these planes, but there were also a very well-regarded group of female pilots (but the government doesn't want you to focus on that). What they want you to focus on is that if you are woman, your war efforts should be in the factory because your husbands and sons are not there to work. Production and product must go and your husbands aren't there to do it. They want women to fly those plans or even contemplate flying those planes because the ideology they are imparting is to mainstream into the jobs of men.
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British propaganda today looks very different from the past. There is no great war to fight for, but the image above shows a potential war of technology and humanity. These two forces conflict because humans have created technology, but technology has begun to do all the thinking while humans sit back and let technology do all the work. This propaganda appeals to the mind in the same appeal that the other two images do, but has a more modern approach. It is meant to insight guilt and fear into those who look at this image.
What are your thoughts on British propaganda? Let me know down below in the comments.
See you soon,
Sarah Johnson
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