In a month-long indoctrination, campers were routinely forced to sing Polish war chants about ferocious resistance to the Russian invader for two hours a day, wake up from their wood plank beds to run 10 kilometers, and march in the harsh Canadian Shield, where they were purposely denied water.
In a month-long indoctrination, campers were routinely forced to sing Polish war chants about ferocious resistance to the Russian invader for two hours a day, wake up from their wood plank beds to run 10km, and march in the harsh Canadian Shield where they were purposely denied water.
The accepted wisdom had been that Britain did not have a critical mass of extremists or a pervasive Muslim culture, and that the kind of long-term indoctrination that is needed to produce suicide bombers was therefore almost impossible.The bombers who struck on July 7th did not come from out of the blue.
For instance, in organizations with strong cultures, such as the military and others with long traditions, the indoctrination of its members is standard and enduring; values are continuously reinforced in terms of rituals, symbols, and rules or expectations for patterns of behaviour.
Published in the late 1930's by the party's New York State branch and recently rediscovered by a Brandeis University historian browsing in his campus's collection of radical pamphlets, it's a 15-page illustrated tutorial in the art of ideologically correct fraternizing: long on political indoctrination -- and penny-pinching strategies -- and notably short on scented handicrafts.
What followed was a succession of trips from one mullah to another in Pakistan, where they were shown Taliban propaganda videos of fights with Americans, in between religious indoctrination featuring long recitations from the Koran, Mr. Mahmadullah said.
In North Korea, the cinema has long been a tool of indoctrination.
Indigenous children in Peru, who have been forced to join guerrilla bands, have undergone long periods of forced political indoctrination.
"American officials can sometimes be so focused on Saudi Arabia's massive oil production and pivotal role in regional security that long-term concerns such as indoctrination get swept under the rug".
In 1961, in "Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of 'Brainwashing' in China," the psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton, who had conducted some of the shipboard interviews with returning P.O.W.s, concluded that the indoctrination of prisoners was a long-term failure.
The historian Lawrence Stone reminded us that "the old ideal" of indoctrination held sway for a very long time, and for very good reasons.
