Evedicia Martinez: Don’t let propaganda create unfair stereotypes

I am writing about the way propaganda negatively affects people around the world. It is interesting to see the way propaganda affects the United States and its view on a certain group. For many years, propaganda negatively affected the Jewish people, when the Nazis made them seem like evil people. Nazi propaganda led to the death of an estimated 11 million Jews. The Nazi’s propaganda against the Jews made many Germans believe it. Propaganda still exists.

In “Analysis of Nazi Propaganda,” Harvard’s Karthik Narayanaswami talks about the role propaganda played in the genocide of Jews. Narayanaswami said Hitler believed propaganda could “disrupt the existing order of things and thus make room for the penetration of the new teaching.” Propaganda reinforces its power over people, “so that the doctrine may finally triumph.”

Propaganda continues to feed Americans with negative stereotypes about Muslims. Americans believe Middle Easterners are behind all terrorist attacks. Americans should realize that not all Muslims are to blame for all the bad that goes on in the world. After the recent attacks on Paris, once again Middle Easterners are being blamed for the acts of a group of terrorists.

This story was originally published November 23, 2015 at 12:57 PM with the headline "Evedicia Martinez: Don’t let propaganda create unfair stereotypes."