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title: You Are a Filipino / My Dear Son (voting poster sheet for the Philippines)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/you-are-a-filipino-my-dear-son-1951/
description: 'A two-panel sheet in English: a hatted farmer points at the viewer under ''You Are a Filipino'', and a distraught woman pleads ''My Dear Son'' above…'
section: Collection
---

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# You Are a Filipino / My Dear Son (voting poster sheet for the Philippines)

A two-panel sheet in English: a hatted farmer points at the viewer under 'You Are a Filipino', and a distraught woman pleads 'My Dear Son' above 'Preserve the purity of the ballot as you would preserve my honor and freedom.' The tell: virtue words ('majesty of the vote', 'honor', 'democracy', 'freedom') are attached to one act, casting a ballot, with no claim that could be tested.

- **Date:** 1951
- **Period:** [Cold War](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=cold-war)
- **Made by:** U.S. Department of State, International Information and Educational Exchange Program (poster series distributed in Asia)
- **Region:** [North America](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=north-america)
- **Country:** [United States](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=united-states)
- **Medium:** [Poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=poster)
- **Issuer type:** [State](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=state)
- **Regime:** [Truman Administration](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=truman-administration)
- **Leader:** [Harry S. Truman](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=harry-s-truman)
- **Audience:** [Foreign public](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=foreign-public)
- **Purpose:** [Persuade or win support](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=persuade-support)
- **Theme:** [Elections and party politics](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=elections-party-politics)
- **Event:** [Philippine Elections 1951](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#event=philippine-elections-1951)
- **Techniques:** [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)
- **Source:** Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- **Source:** [U.S. National Archives (NARA), RG 306, series 'Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia' (NAID 1767935)](https://catalog.archives.gov/id/5730171), retrieved September 29, 2026
- **Rights:** Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA use restriction 'Unrestricted') U.S. Department of State / U.S. Information Agency; National Archives, Records of the U.S. Information Agency (RG 306).

## Text on the object

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

```
YOU ARE A FILIPINO
UPHOLD THE MAJESTY OF THE VOTE. CAST IT TO HONOR YOUR COUNTRY AND DEMOCRACY.

MY DEAR SON
PRESERVE THE PURITY OF THE BALLOT AS YOU WOULD PRESERVE MY HONOR AND FREEDOM.
```

Two side-by-side panels; the left panel is given first.

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