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A 4 page research paper that investigates the propaganda produced in Japan and the US during World War II. During World War II, both the US and Japan engaged in heavy propaganda campaigns that promoted their own particular racial views on the conflict. The propaganda produced by both countries was geared to patterns of racial bigotry. The US produced propaganda that pictured the Japanese primarily animalistic terms. The Japanese, likewise, portrayed Americans as demons and imperialistic megalomaniacs. By focusing on portrayals of race in their propaganda, both countries succeeded in creating their enemy as "other" in the minds of their respective peoples, that is, as "other" than ourselves, and therefore less than human. This is the classic rationalization that justifies atrocities and atrocities were committed on both sides. In his text on this topic, historian John Dower points out that "stereotypes preceded the atrocities" and led an "independent existence apart from any specific events" (Dower 73). Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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produced by both countries was geared to patterns of racial bigotry. The US produced propaganda that pictured the Japanese primarily animalistic terms. The Japanese, likewise, portrayed Americans as demons and
imperialistic megalomaniacs. By focusing on portrayals of race in their propaganda, both countries succeeded in creating their enemy as "other" in the minds of their respective peoples, that is, as
"other" than ourselves, and therefore less than human. This is the classic rationalization that justifies atrocities and atrocities were committed on both sides. In his text on this topic, historian
John Dower points out that "stereotypes preceded the atrocities" and led an "independent existence apart from any specific events" (Dower 73). In the US, referring to Frank Capras series
of documentaries for the US War Department, Dower argues that there are two underlying basic stereotypes. The first stereotype can be summed up by the theme that the enemy is
opposite from everything the West holds dear--...you are the opposite of what you say you are and the opposite of us, not peaceful but warlike, not good but bad" (Dower
30). The second type of stereotype relies on a formula that goes something like this: "you are what you say you are, but that (in) itself is reprehensible" (Dower 30).
In the eyes of propaganda, the American cultural commitment to individualism was transformed into overwhelming self-interest and a desire for the exploitation of others, while Americans, in turn, saw the
Japanese cultural commitment to collectivity as mindless dedication to a "herd" mentality. American propaganda conceived of the Japanese in terms of animals (reptiles, insects, monkeys, gorillas, etc), but after
Pearl Harbor, it also became popular to conceive of the Japanese as superhuman (Dower 99). While the US promoted thought that was keyed to racial color, calling the Japanese the
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