In most cases, propaganda is used to serve for the purposes of minorities. There have been detrimental and highly fatal propagandas like the ones during the Holocaust and those leading to the wide reshaping of the world through imperialism by ‘super- powers’. Propaganda has been in existence since the earliest of time in World’s history and operates almost at the same level of sternness at whatever given time. Though most individuals are not well informed on what propaganda is, it still affects their lives. Propaganda is widely defined as ‘information especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view’. Propagandas are controlled by minorities in societies. They exist in every corner of the globe and precisely influence how people view things, and behave, you name it. For instance how African leaders portray the western world, imperialistic, or how the Asian leadership speaks of the world outside of Asia, loose. The list goes on.
But, these are four of some of the times propaganda is used for the benefit of the masses.
‘Women’ are the weaker sex. (Most societies are patriarchal)
Mostly used in the studies of literature and social studies, the view has enabled an unending number of groups around the world to address the general challenges that are faced by women. Patriarchy, which is the dominance of men in many societies supposing the belittling of women, has been slowly overturned since the turn of the 21st century. The slowly natured claim has met an awakening of powerful groups fighting gender cases to overturn the woman’s ‘fate’.
The other 98% ‘Oligarchy’
Well expert theorists say 98% of the populations are ‘controlled’ by the remaining 2%. 1% of the 2% representing the political leaders and the remaining 1% making up the numbers of the rich societies that have influence on a country’s economy hence a hold on the politicians. And it is the case everywhere around the world. But only with sort of eye opening propaganda of the 98% that has spread mostly through social media urging masses to overturn the system by fighting against the minority rules in pursuit of actual democracy.
Black Lives Matter
‘Black-people’ throughout the course of history have always been known as an oppressed group of people-in racial terms. They are oppressed in one way or the other, directly in the time of slavery and the post slavery eras, colonialism, and all the way to post colonialism. The black lives matter campaign seeks to make people conscious on how the world’s ‘black’ people are plighted by structural marginalization.
Disease Awareness’s
Diseases cause a lot of trouble for the world. World-health-organisation(s’) immersion of energy in fighting chronic and incurable diseases has helped a lot of people in the whole world to take steps to preserve their health as well as taking preventive measures against diseases such as HIV/AIDS, Zica and Ebola. There have been countless disease awareness campaigns around the world. This sort of propaganda is directly beneficial to the masses from anywhere around the world as it protects people from likely detrimental disease situations.
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