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The Delivery and Contrast of Patriotism

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patriotized history

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patriotic change (of history)

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A list of recurrent items in the category patriotic change (of history):

Definition of patriotic change (of history)

  • All propaganda makes a patriotic change. For patriotized history, the patriotic change is always a patriotic change (of history).
  • The patriotic change (of history) is the change that would be required to convert events in unpatriotized history into the version of events portrayed in the patriotic message. In a patriotic change (of history), actions or actors that are present in actual history are gone or different in the version of events conveyed in the text. In many cases, actions are replaced with their opposites.
  • In patriotized history, the patriotic message is the imaginary world in which this text belongs, and the patriotic change (of history) is the difference between that imaginary world and the real world.


Recurrent items in the patriotic change (of history) diagram element category

We find that there is a small set of patriotic changes of history that are found over and over in texts. On the left is the list of these patriotic changes. Clicking on any one of them will take you to a discussion of that patriotic change and examples of texts that use it.