Oh No! The Aliens Are Coming!

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Illegal immigrants have been the debate of contemporary issues in the United States, specifically that of Utah. The question for many individuals is what do we do with all of these people coming across our southern borders illegally? Because this is such a hot-button issue, there have been many rumors and ideas about how illegal immigrants generate problems within our society. Truths have been twisted, state and local bills have been passed, and lives have been destroyed on both sides of the debate. The truth about illegal immigrants may be difficult to find, but with the knowledge of how propaganda affects our perspective can make us better aware of illegal immigrants and even create a solution that will appease both sides of the border.

First off, let’s begin by defining propaganda. Aristotle states that propaganda, or rhetoric, is “the power to see all the available means of persuasion.” In Wayne C. Booth’s novel, The Rhetoric of RHETORIC: The Quest for Effective Communication, he makes the claim that “…it is important to escape the reductions of rhetoric to the non-truth kinds the term must always include both the verbal and visual garbage flooding our lives and the tools for cleaning things up” (Booth 3). By combining both Aristotle’s and Booth’s definitions we can thus conclude that propaganda is the “verbal and visual” information that we receive; the visual and verbal become “all the available means of persuasion” for propaganda tools.

To further understand the affects of propaganda, it is important to note Gustave LeBon’s theory of the “group mentality.” In his book The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind, LeBon makes the assertion that an individual acts differently when placed with a group of people then he would ind...

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Holub, Hugh. "Why Americans Think (Wrongly) that Illegal Immigrants Hurt the Economy." Voice of Tucson July 30, 2010: n. pag. Web. 15 Mar 2011.

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