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I honestly think that the government knew that what they were doing was wrong but at the same time they thought they were doing the Indians a favor by making life easier for them, getting them jobs, better living conditions (of course they really weren't). You have to remember at this time the government wasn't too thrilled with people beign different, they wanted everyone to be the same to fit some sort of ideal. -- Kellye Sorber | I honestly think that the government knew that what they were doing was wrong but at the same time they thought they were doing the Indians a favor by making life easier for them, getting them jobs, better living conditions (of course they really weren't). You have to remember at this time the government wasn't too thrilled with people beign different, they wanted everyone to be the same to fit some sort of ideal. -- Kellye Sorber | ||
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| + | I thought the most interesting thing about this reading was that it showed how powerful propaganda was and still can be. Here was a family who was by all accounts happy, the children and wife seemed satisfied. They may have lived an archaic life by other standards, but they had never known anything different. Yet the BIA convinced the husband that by moving halfway across the country he could be like the idealized middle class family on the front of a brochure. The same was true with the WWII and post-WWII propaganda we studied in class, there the government seemed to have the ability to turn (most)of the publics' desire to have women work on and off by changing the message on a poster. Sometimes playing on a person's hopes, dreams, and desire to fit in can be far more powerful than any weapon. --- Landon Davis | ||
== Joanna Rubin, "An Unplanned Pregnancy" 1950s == | == Joanna Rubin, "An Unplanned Pregnancy" 1950s == | ||
