Indoctrination

the textbook, Jones mentioned that influence happen in the classroom when the student is fearful of or respects the teacher, or simply because the final grade for the course is perceived to be in the teacher’s hands. Similarly in the article, indoctrination happened when the follower is fearful of or respects the leader, or primarily because the follower believed that their fate of life and death is dependent on the leader. In the two settings, both the student and victim are vulnerable to…

solidarity did not so much render victims’ suffering invisible as make them marginal to the larger purpose of an ethnic renaissance,” (Koonz, 3). Paired with seven to eight years of indoctrination and propaganda, Germany evolved into a murderous state, populated by collaborators and willing…

The Roman Catholic church is probably the most obvious of all indoctrinated churches. Most note-able of Catholicism’s indoctrination is the The fifteen Apocryphal books which the Roman Catholics have included in their Bibles. These books are also called the lost books or hidden books of the bible. To begin, the word apocryphal stands for questionable authenticity. These books have never been accepted as divine words of God. These books were created in the silent period between the old testament…

trained girls for comradeship, domestic duties and motherhood. Similarly to the Hitler Youth Group, it concentrated on collective tasks and produced ‘virile and strong’ girls. Therefore, the Hitler youth organisations were very successful in the indoctrination and total control of youth,…

Faith. Though not all admit to it, it lies in everyone. It speaks and guides people through the day, from one hour to the next. It makes one feel safe and complete, for they are comfortably nestled in a sea of warmth. Faith gives one something to confide in, be it a time of wellbeing or when all hope is lost. However, when stagnant, it can be catastrophically malignant towards others, in addition, it precludes cultural modernization, the key component responsible for the imperative process of…

citizens and intimidate them. They will also even use violence and murder to achieve their goal.(440). Methods of enforcement also include indoctrination, which controls educations. This is essential to “glorify” the leader and his policies and to convince all citizens that their loyalty and support is required only to their government and leader. Indoctrination starts with children, feeding their minds with biased information, making them accept certain beliefs and actions.…

Tyranny of the majority is also a topic discussed throughout class thus far. In the tyranny of the majority, the government serves the people and majority rules. By having a majority rules system, the majority is prevented from being a dictator. Mill believes that you can never be sure you are preventing bad things from happening as you can never be sure that something will go wrong. He believes that the majority will not take away the rights of every one else if they are enlightened. According…

Stalin, too, used children as targets for indoctrination, although he preferred the classroom education approach to the youth group movements of Nazi Germany. In Stalin’s Russia, children were taught from a young age that Stalin was their supreme leader, and that he knew what was best for their country. They would recite oaths of loyalty in classrooms, and pledge their allegiance to Russia and Stalin (Cote). This continuous repetition enforced their belief that they had to follow Stalin, and…

Describe how indoctrination created an obedient Germany. Indoctrination used to encourage obedience was rooted at Germany’s youths. In school environments, children were manipulated into a Nazi mindset and exposed to various mediums of propaganda. They were taught history with an emphasis on…

This, closer to political than religious, ideology is only occurring in North Korea and is forced upon the residents by the state. The intensity of political indoctrination that is imposed on North Koreans is beyond any other country in the world and has been getting more severe through time. Juche is described by the North Korean regime as Kim Il-Sung’s “original, brilliant and revolutionary contribution to national…