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No I definitely agree with that, I guess the cultural propaganda from non-western countries is usually just more clumsy and ham-handed than something like capta
by voldacar 7y ago
No I definitely agree with that, I guess the cultural propaganda from non-western countries is usually just more clumsy and ham-handed than something like captain america
- mytailorisrich 7y agoI think one factor is that in countries like China where the state has an effective monopoly on information there is no incentive to improve. In the West the government would be openly ridiculed but obviously this cannot happen in China. Secondly, from my experience I feel that we detect propaganda more easily when it's foreign rather than in our own country. Perhaps because we are so used to "our own" that we cannot notice it anymore. For example, as a European I find Captain America as unsubtle as Chinese propaganda. If you're an American and come to the UK perhaps you will find coverage of the Queen and the Monarchy equally unsubtle.
- newen 7y agoYeah...I think Americans have a hard time thinking of their government spreading propaganda because America equals freedom/propaganda is only done in bad countries/etc etc. So people get some mild cognitive dissonance when they become fans of Captain America.