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
- Date
- July 28, 1958
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S. Information Agency (predecessor: State Department International Information and Educational Exchange Program), Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East series
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Eisenhower Administration
- Leader
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Theme
- Migration
- Event
- Cold War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), RG 306, Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America, Middle East (NAID 5051202), retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, July 28, 1958. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6948909, 306-PPB-80).
Text on the object
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.
