Elliot Aronson in Pratkanis and Aronson, (1992), Age of Propaganda, p. xii talks about how he believed that world war based on school education involved the Germans were evil and the Japanese had been depicted as sneaky and treacherous, while the white americans were regarded as the clean and honest, fair minded and trusting heroes that came to the rescue.
This subject is similar to the one of slavery and orientalism, white Americans create a heroic and positive images of themselves and depict others races as low and interior to whites. In the orientalism book written by Edward W. said he talks about how the west depict both East asian and Africa as exotic and use other demeaning terms to classify anyone outside of Europe or the USA. These teachings are passed down through generation so that more people can go on through life believing that this information is truthful and factual.
The main focus in this was not about just what information is provided, but the photograph used to make these pictures seem true, sometimes being taken during the time of a tragic incident or the worst period of time an image can be captured which could be used to paint image of a person or place negatively when this is not the case. Words are also used to sometimes describe a situation like it is in an image.
Simulacrum - An image or representation of someone or something.
This is basically a word to describe what I have been talking about previously to do with pictures and the representation.
In the past animations have been used to tell both lies and truthful stories sometimes obvious or hidden. With animation lies are often told using the characters and the ideas the people have who make them. For instance the west, mostly america used to make up a lot of lies about African Americans being lustful, dumb, sexual and dim-witty, they were often made to look like this with in animation around the 1950's with america. These lies and tales told about black people have been past through generations and where also placed into animation to laugh at the issue of racism towards African Americans.
Phrenology was something which was used to distinguish black people from white Americans. This was an biological analysis of human body based on characteristics like race, body shape, looks and many more features. A lot things were often said about black peoples features being monkey like could be the reason why they were often unintelligent and their brains always being driven towards crime, which is ludicrous and untruthful, but people believed that this was factual information, these same facts were eventually animated and were depicted worse especially when the characters looked like monkeys, these lies were animated like the video below.
"Africans were thought to be sub-human, uncivilised, and inferior to Europeans in every way. And as they were ‘not one of us’, they could be bought and sold. The development of racism is linked to the slave trade."
Racist ideas (no date) Available at: http://discoveringbristol.org.uk/slavery/after-slavery/wider-world/black-white-in-britain/racist-ideas/ (Accessed: 22 April 2016).
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