People use propaganda all the time, whether it's for business competition, elections, and even wars. But I'm going to talk about the past, when the British were colonizing the Americas and came across the Native Americans. They did not take one another’s company very well. The British wanted all the land to themselves. To obtain that, they spread word to their people saying natives are savages and basically dehumanizing them. The British destroyed their homes and farms, and killed whole tribes. One of the main tribes was the Mi'kmaq's. They were only trying to protect what was rightfully theirs, and by doing so they got killed. Because the British truly believed it should all be theirs, Edward Cornwallis made the proclamation of 1749 to scalp …show more content…
The history of the white man’s connections with the Indians is a sickening record of murder, outrage, robbery and wrongs; taught by the Government that they had rights entitled to be respect, when those rights have been assailed by the rapacity, of the white man, the arm which should have been raised to protect the Indians has never been ready to sustain the aggressor” (Hoopes, 1).
In today's society, people believe the British came over and were friendly to the Natives, helping them out and being kind to them. But in reality they were destroying their homes, land, and making them extinct. They were no help to the Natives. The British edge the real savages.
"The great chain of being is the major underlying theme that are outside the normal culture" (Smith, pg 46). The natives, not being of the same religion, gave the British more of a reason to dehumanize them since they were outside of the norm. "Some of the tribes moved past the initial subhuman ideas and helped the settlers in times of need, but it was noted even though the native population was helping out that a conquest of brute force could help push them out of their land" (Brody and Henretta, pg. 14). Even with them being nice and helpful the Natives were still pushing them away from their