Actually I was referring to the ability for barely researched stereotypes of past or foreign cultures to spread and become a moral cause. That's been going on

Actually I was referring to the ability for barely researched stereotypes of past or foreign cultures to spread and become a moral cause. That's been going on for centuries all over the globe. It picked up speed with the industrialization of information exchange, and now we can all laugh at how stupid the Victorians, the Communists and the American Revolutionaries were without ever having to consider they were successful for some reason or another.