And yet, from this quick humorous exchange, you've absorbed the notion that Syria is an evil country where bad people might be accumulating material for weapons of mass destruction.
Of course I don't know anything about you, you might actually be from Syria, or be an expert in Syria and the Middle East, or have anyway a good knowledge of the country and its situation and people. I only wanted to point out that the fragment of dialogue you reported, with its casual piece of negative information regarding a foreign country, is in fact a good example of how political propaganda works, be it intentional or (most likely, in this case) not. Repeat that enough in enough different forms, and millions of people will be perfectly sure that Syria is a threat to world peace.
The dialogue appears to be from 2007, just four years later the USA started getting involved and taking sides in the Syrian civil war.
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And yet, from this quick humorous exchange, you've absorbed the notion that Syria is an evil country where bad people might be accumulating material for weapons of mass destruction.
Not at all, how exactly did I put that across to you.
Of course I don't know anything about you, you might actually be from Syria, or be an expert in Syria and the Middle East, or have anyway a good knowledge of the country and its situation and people. I only wanted to point out that the fragment of dialogue you reported, with its casual piece of negative information regarding a foreign country, is in fact a good example of how political propaganda works, be it intentional or (most likely, in this case) not. Repeat that enough in enough different forms, and millions of people will be perfectly sure that Syria is a threat to world peace.
The dialogue appears to be from 2007, just four years later the USA started getting involved and taking sides in the Syrian civil war.