France and the United States: Borrowed and Shared National Symbols Page: 3
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It appears that our modern, abstract national symbols carry more weight of
importance and emotion during and just after times of war or political unrest than
during times of national peace. This effect is evident if we consider the fact that
many of the national symbols in existence today were born out of times of war.
People are more invested in their countries when their governments hold the
keys to their individual fates than when there is no eminent danger, or the
eminent danger is out of the government's hands.
There appear to be marked periods of time when authors in France and
the United States seemed drawn to write about national symbols. For France,
many such works were written in the late 1800s and the early 1900s. This period
directly followed the turbulent decades of several revolutions and changes of
governmental power between monarchy, republic, and empire, and concluded
just after the First World War. Another reason for this influx of national symbology
during that period in France is that before the late 1800s, the national symbols
changed as often as the government did, so it was best to wait until the
government and its symbols were seemingly set in stone. For the U.S., there are
many works (often addressing juvenile audiences) that were written during the
Post-World War II years of the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, which saw a revival of
national pride and the need for maintaining the American way of life in the face of
wars in Korea and Vietnam, and the Cold War. Those were days when the
American people felt that their children especially needed to be indoctrinated in
the patriotic American spirit rather than be caught up in the much-feared3
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Crawford, Katlyn Marie. France and the United States: Borrowed and Shared National Symbols, thesis, May 2011; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc67971/m1/7/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .