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The Dilemma of Cultural Propaganda: "Let It Be"

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  • Arthur Goodfriend

    (Chancellor of the East-West Center, Honolulu)

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Proud of its "product" and its advertising prowess, the United States naturally believes it holds advan tages over its adversaries in the field of international cultural propaganda. Yet the nature of officially controlled and ma nipulated propaganda runs counter to the very essence of the product it is trying to "sell," when that product is the American ideal and American institutions. For the United States, there fore, official propaganda is not only unethical and immoral; it is a contradiction in terms. It should quit playing the propa ganda game by totalitarian rules and place its reliance—abroad as at home—on the freedom and diversity of its informational media and the absence of official constraints on its culture.

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  • Arthur Goodfriend, 1971. "The Dilemma of Cultural Propaganda: "Let It Be"," The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, , vol. 398(1), pages 104-112, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:anname:v:398:y:1971:i:1:p:104-112
    DOI: 10.1177/000271627139800112
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