Sources Of Fear

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All of the sources are examples of how fear can affect our decisions and the way that we treat people. When we are presented with a threat to our safety and security, we think irrationally and do not stop to think about the outcome of our actions. All of the sources are different viewpoints and examples of how we have made such awful decisions based off of the fact that we felt threatened. The Nazi propaganda made german people believe that they were in danger and that the only way to ensure their security was to eradicate the problem, which was the jews. These signs were the beginning stages of the nazi’s installing their anti-semitic worldviews into their people. The same can be said for source 3, which was the transportation of Japanese

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