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Art's Role in National Patriotism

Art serves as a powerful tool for nations to evoke emotions and instill patriotism through various media forms. Soft power, defined as cultural influence, plays a significant role in how countries like the U.S., Japan, and Korea leverage art and media to foster national pride and economic advantages. To enhance soft power in nations with weaker economies, it is essential to encourage the creation and appreciation of art that reflects cultural identity and history.

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Art's Role in National Patriotism

Art serves as a powerful tool for nations to evoke emotions and instill patriotism through various media forms. Soft power, defined as cultural influence, plays a significant role in how countries like the U.S., Japan, and Korea leverage art and media to foster national pride and economic advantages. To enhance soft power in nations with weaker economies, it is essential to encourage the creation and appreciation of art that reflects cultural identity and history.

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Art and Patriotism

Art is often used to elicit a response that mere words are seldom able to express.

This is seen in pictures, paintings, propaganda posters, TV commercials, and music that aim, through
lines, color, lighting, movement, sound, and form, to instill an emotion or even a desire to act.

And to this, nations have long been using these forms of media to instill a sense of patriotic passion into
the hearts of the people.

This is seen in how American war movies played a part to win the support of their people in the multiple
wars their soldiers have fought,

how our national heroes used art and literature to rally likeminded people to fight for our freedom,

and controversially, how Nazi Germany used propagandic films, posters, fashion, and other mediums to
instill a sense of superiority for their target audience and gain support for their armies and campaigns.

So, what exactly makes art a powerful tool for nations?

Soft power

Soft power is defined as a persuasive approach to international relations, typically involving the use
of economic or cultural influence

At large, western first world countries by far the hold the most soft power.

It is apparent in the influences they have on modern economies, media, art, architecture, fashion, and
even culture in our lives and the products we consume.

In Asia, Japan and Korea carry a great amount of soft power due their powerful economies and the
media and goods they export.

Through these exports, they spread their cultural influence through music, television, literature, and the
architecture they depict.

As a result, their people feel secure and confident in their countries, and in turn genuinely end up loving
their nations which inspires its people to further preserve, study, and spread their culture and art.

Soft power can be leveraged into economic and diplomatic advantages for different benefits.

For instance, American, Japanese, and Korean goods and media provide international acclaim and job
opportunities for artists which eventually translate into more income for the respective nation.

Locally, this keeps the people of their respective nation transfixed with their own cultures, and keeps
their preferences biased toward their own products and cultures.

With the lack of a strong economy, how should we as a nation express our love for our nation and gain
soft power for ourselves?
Encourage people to make art

Encouraging people to make art is far more than just relegating art project and learning about it in
school. Aside from sparking interest in viewing art, it should also entail a raising up of the value of art
and its creation to Filipino society be it in culture or through more concrete incentives.

For making art entails knowing a subject deeply; to know its nuances and intricacies; to know its
strengths flaws.

To instill national pride through art, we must be well educated, dedicated, critical, and tenacious for the
benefit of bettering our nation.

And as such, meaningful art about the nation implies the artist’s familiarity with our aesthetics, culture,
traditions, and history.

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