Question

All of the following are key factors in understanding genocides EXCEPT: a) Rhetoric used to justify mass killings b) Types of military equipment used c) Main influences on actors d) Media response

Answer 1

The option that is not a key factor to understand genocies is:

b) Types of military equipment used

Step-by-step explanation:

To understand this answer we need to analyze all of the options:

a) this is incorrect because of rhetorics as always being used by leaders to execute mass killings,m Arab holy war, nazi Germany justification, etc.

b) this is the correct option because they are tools that have no direct meanings. We can't explain the reason for genocide by using a tank or a gun.

c) this is incorrect because this is the deepest level to understand the reasons for genocide.

d) the reaction of media has no direct influence on genocide, but they analyze the reasons interviewing experts about it.

Answer 2

The term "genocide" means any actions applied to the ethnic, religious or other group of people with the intention to destroy it in whole or in part.

The key factor in understanding genocide are:

a) Rhetoric used to justify mass killings. - As an example, we can Hitler`s rhetoric on the perfection of the Aryan nation, its godly origins. And, as its opposite, the Jewish nation of the low origins. They were killed only based on their appearance, beliefs, and the life style.

c) Main influences on actors.

d) Media response. Media is the best way to influence people, if the government controls media it controls its people, therefore media plays a very important role in the expansion of the genocide.

The EXEPT factor is b) Types of military equipment used. As it is not important what type of the arms are used. It can be mental methods of influencing (e.g. Nazi Germany implanting the belief of the superiority of their nations and with that brainwashing people), prisons, tortures, etc.