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Even after the recent, successful summit meeting, images of allies and enemies continue to affect many contemporary political conflicts. They fueled not only the arms race of the superpowers and the war between Iran and Iraq but also apartheid in South Africa and international terrorism. While nobody would question the role images of allies and enemies play in all of these contexts, their origins and developmental history in children are not well understood.
In a fundamental way, television helps to create what children expect of themselves and of others and what constitutes the standards of civilized society.
—National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence (1969, p. 206)
America has become the first culture to have substituted secondary, mediated versions of experience for direct experience of the world. Interpretations and representations of the world are being accepted as experience, and the difference between the two remains obscure to most of us.
—Mander (1978, p. 24)
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Hesse, P., Mack, J.E. (1991). The World Is a Dangerous Place. In: Rieber, R.W. (eds) The Psychology of War and Peace. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0747-9_6
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