Easter Island Propaganda
Culture influence could be used as a propaganda tool. People gain their knowledge, overall speculation, belief and thought via social interaction and media. Propaganda was first initiated in 1662 by Pope Gregory XV when he established “The Sacred Congregation for Propagating the Faith.” Propaganda was then, similar to now, a given set of information laid in a biased or a misleading way. Propaganda became a great tool for leaders to promote their point of view and to influence the masses. For instance, war became a major to use propaganda, as a leader seek to gain support for his cause and advocate and also to hide the terror of their doings and the mistakes of the front line. Playming fingers between two enemies and misleading infromation.
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Easter Island is a perfect example of a cultural conflict in a society, mainly because it is the most isolated island and eco system. Therefore, there were no external effect and influence. When the Spaniards came to the island in the 19th century they were surprised that the natives only had small damaged canoes which raised a lot of question about how could they sail with such a technology. Furthermore, the Spaniards did not find any trees to make robe and boat from, they also could not find any no birds and animals in the island. The native told the Spaniards that they did not know their origins and who build the famous status. The Spaniards in their encounter described the natives as Miserable and they were leaving in a poor environment, they also noticed the horrific history of the Island which cannibalism was practiced right before the Spaniards showed up. Fortunately now, due to technological breakthrough in dating and archeology the secret of the Eastern Island was revealed. The archaeological records show that Eastern Island was much different from what the Spaniards had encountered, it was prosper filled with wild life and trees. The first native of the island came over a thousand years ago and their diet consisted mainly on dolphins and fishing. Sadly it took only four hundred years for the native to exploit all the trees to build canoes for fishing. Moreover, they lead all the fish and dolphin on the cost to extinction. After exploiting all of their main source of food they moved their diet to birds until they have killed them all. Lastly, rats became the main diet for the natives. However, such a food source is hard to relay on which lead to cannibalism, wars and dividing the Island into groups. What a hair-raising story, and all of that happened because they did not understand their
Easter Island is a perfect example of a cultural conflict in a society, mainly because it is the most isolated island and eco system. Therefore, there were no external effect and influence. When the Spaniards came to the island in the 19th century they were surprised that the natives only had small damaged canoes which raised a lot of question about how could they sail with such a technology. Furthermore, the Spaniards did not find any trees to make robe and boat from, they also could not find any no birds and animals in the island. The native told the Spaniards that they did not know their origins and who build the famous status. The Spaniards in their encounter described the natives as Miserable and they were leaving in a poor environment, they also noticed the horrific history of the Island which cannibalism was practiced right before the Spaniards showed up. Fortunately now, due to technological breakthrough in dating and archeology the secret of the Eastern Island was revealed. The archaeological records show that Eastern Island was much different from what the Spaniards had encountered, it was prosper filled with wild life and trees. The first native of the island came over a thousand years ago and their diet consisted mainly on dolphins and fishing. Sadly it took only four hundred years for the native to exploit all the trees to build canoes for fishing. Moreover, they lead all the fish and dolphin on the cost to extinction. After exploiting all of their main source of food they moved their diet to birds until they have killed them all. Lastly, rats became the main diet for the natives. However, such a food source is hard to relay on which lead to cannibalism, wars and dividing the Island into groups. What a hair-raising story, and all of that happened because they did not understand their