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title: Poster Series No. 2, Asian Youth Studies in America (English-text poster distributed in the Philippines)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/poster-series-2-asian-youth-studies-in-america-1958/
description: A yellow sheet with a stylised figure crouching before a large book and holding a globe, around six captioned photographs of Asian students at American
section: Collection
---

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# Poster Series No. 2, Asian Youth Studies in America (English-text poster distributed in the Philippines)

A yellow sheet with a stylised figure crouching before a large book and holding a globe, around six captioned photographs of Asian students at American colleges, a library, a tea, a student forum and laboratories. The text says over 43,000 foreign students study in the United States and that American educational opportunity in 'a free, democratic society' attracts them. The tell is bandwagon, in the student count, with glittering generalities in 'free' and 'democratic'.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Bandwagon](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/bandwagon/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
More than 43,000 students from all over the world
are now in the United States studying at almost
3,000 American colleges. Free Asian nations
have sent nearly one-third of this vast
number of young scholars.

A student get-together from various campuses in U.S. Represented here
are Philippines, Republic of Korea, Malaya, Singapore and Indonesia.

ASIAN YOUTH
STUDIES IN AMERICA

Time for relaxation at a New York University library. Students are from India,
Japan, Pakistan, Philippines, Burma, Indonesia, Hong Kong and Thailand.

Enjoying tea at Barnard College are students
(center) from Burma and Republic of China.

A student forum on Community Problems hears
from Mahipala Udabage (right) of Ceylon.

Assistance in the cotton laboratory for textile
students from Burma and India (right).

At Tulane Medical School, instruction for Ma-
layan student (seated) in microbiology.

Every year an increasing number of Asian students are studying at American colleges.
Many have scholarships, but many make it on their own determination. It is the unique
educational opportunities in America ... in a free, democratic society ... which at-
tract them. For it is America's belief that a free and open exchange of knowledge
can do much to enhance understanding and the advancement of free peoples throughout
the world.

SUPPLEMENT TO
Free World
VOLUME VII NO 9
SEPTEMBER 1958
```

Photo captions and body text transcribed in reading order; the Free World supplement imprint is at lower left.

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