History Main / TaughtToHate

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* ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon (2010)'': All Vikings of Berk are taught to slay every dragon on spot, as they view them as dangerous beasts that raid out of sadism, and they even train children to fight them, until the best of the recruit is chosen for a initiation rite that consists in killing a dragon in front of the entire village. Even Hiccup used to hate them, until one day, after sparing a Night Fury (Toothless) from his trap out compassion, he decided to study him in a peaceful approach and trained him. And after finding out the real reason behind the raids ([[spoiler:it turned out that those dragons were forced to steal Berk's supplies by the Red Death, under the threat of eating them]]) and dealt with it, people are starting to train them as well, developing a symbiotic relationship in the process.

-->'''Veronica''': My father says we should have dropped the bomb on Italy. He says it would have gotten rid of all you traitors.

* ''WesternAnimation/EducationForDeath'': This Disney short has one of the more horrific examples of the trope, as it details the life of a young German boy named Hans under the [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany Nazi regime]]. He's raised on fairy tales that depicts UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler as the dashing KnightInShiningArmor who saves Princess Germany from the WickedWitch named [[DemocracyIsBad Democracy]]. And when he goes to school, he's humiliated by his teacher for showing sympathy to the poor rabbit who got eaten by a fox, which causes Hans to repent and declare his hatred towards the rabbit and all things weak. This small lesson becomes the foundation for Hans' higher education, where he participates with his class in book burning and ransacking a church. The end of the short features Hans all grown-up as a ruthless, hateful, [[BlindObedience blindly obedient]] Nazi soldier marching into war and eventually... [[TitleDrop to his death]].
* ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon (2010)'': All Vikings of Berk are taught to slay every dragon on spot, as they view them as dangerous beasts that raid out of sadism, and they even train children to fight them, until the best of the recruit is chosen for a initiation rite that consists in killing a dragon in front of the entire village. Even Hiccup used to hate them, until one day, after sparing a Night Fury (Toothless) from his trap out compassion, he decided to study him in a peaceful approach and trained him. And after finding out the real reason behind the raids ([[spoiler:it turned out that those dragon were forced to steal Berk's supplies by the Red Death, under the threat of eating them]]) and dealt with it, people are starting to train them as well, developing a symbiotic relationship in the process.

* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', Dwight the griffin explains that the distrust "the other side of this universe" has towards uryoums is entirely rational: truth magic doesn't work on them, and they tried to take over the world ... with ''technology''. Liam the griffin then explains that the "take over the world thing" was thousands of years ago, ''if it even happened'', and the prejudice against them is mostly for the usual reasons people are prejudiced against those who are different. He's just explaining this to the "our side of the universe" humans, and is surprised when Dwight, admittedly somewhat confusedly, starts taking this on board as well, with the suggestion that no-one had ''ever'' raised the posibility that "uryoums are liars and shouldn't be allowed technology" was a prejudice in front of him before.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKingIISimbasPride'': The Outsiders, led by [[BigBad Zira]], are a group of lions exiled by Simba for being loyal to the deceased [[GreaterScopeVillain Scar]]. Zira's children -- Kovu, Nuka, and Vitani -- are raised by Zira to hate Simba and the Pridelanders for killing Scar and banishing them into the Outlands. Kovu in particular is groomed to be Scar's successor and Simba's usurper. However, upon meeting and falling in love with Kiara, Simba's daughter, [[DefusingTheTykeBomb Kovu is able to shake off the hateful teachings of his mother]] and manages to convince the Outsiders (sans [[IrredeemableException Zira]] and [[AlasPoorVillain Nuka]]) to drop their feud with the Pridelanders and unite as one pride.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKingIISimbasPride'': The Outsiders, led by [[BigBad Zira]], are a group of lions exiled by Simba for being loyal to the deceased [[GreaterScopeVillain Scar]]. Zira's children -- Kovu, Nuka, and Vitani -- are raised by Zira to hate Simba and the Pridelanders for killing Scar and banishing them into the Outlands. Kovu in particular is groomed to be Scar's successor and Simba's usurper. However, upon meeting and falling in love with Kiara, Simba's daughter, [[DefusingTheTykeBomb Kovu is able to shake off the hateful teachings of his mother]] and manages to convince the Outsiders (sans [[IrredeemableExcepton Zira]] and [[AlasPoorVillain Nuka]]) to drop their feud with the Pridelanders and unite as one pride.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKingIISimbasPride'': The Outlanders, led by [[BigBad Zira]], are a group of lions exiled by Simba for being loyal to the deceased [[GreaterScopeVillain Scar]]. Zira's children -- Kovu, Nuka, and Vitani -- are raised by Zira to hate Simba and the Pridelanders for killing Scar and banishing them into the Outlands. Kovu in particular is groomed to be Scar's successor and Simba's usurper. However, upon meeting and falling in love with Kiara, Simba's daughter, [[DefusingTheTykeBomb Kovu is able to shake off the hateful teachings of his mother]] and manages to convince the Outlanders (sans Zira and Nuka) to drop their feud with the Pridelanders and unite as one pride.

* Creator/RodgersAndHammerstein's ''Theatre/SouthPacific'', specifically the song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPf6ITsjsgk "You've Got to be Carefully Taught"]], is the TropeNamer. Lieutenant Cable, a white American man in an interracial relationship with Tonkinese Liat, becomes angry at his own internalized racial hangups about the romance, as well as the impact that those same biases are affecting his friend Emile (whose fiancee called off their engagement after learning that Emile's late first wife was Tonkinese and consequently his children are mixed-race), and breaks out into a song to the effect that bigotry isn't something humans are born with, it's something they learn and, by implication, they should damn well un-learn it. The playwrights were requested to cut the song for being too {{Anvilicious}} and retorted that its PrejudiceAesop was the point of the whole musical.

* ''WesternAnimation/EducationForDeath'': This Disney short has one of the more horrific examples of the trope, as it details the life of a young German boy named Hans under the [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany Nazi regime]]. He's raised on fairy tales that depicts UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler as the dashing KnightInShiningArmor who saves Princess Germany from the WickedWitch named [[DemocracyIsBad Democracy]]. And when he goes to school, he's humiliated by his teacher for showing sympathy to the poor rabbit who got eaten by a fox, which causes Hans to repent and declare his hatred towards the rabbit and all things weak. This small lesson becomes the foundation for Hans' higher education, where he participates with his class in book burning and ransacking a church. The end of the short features Hans all grown-up as a loyal, hateful, [[BlindObedience blindly obedient]] Nazi soldier marching into war and eventually... [[TitleDrop to his death]].

* ''WesternAnimation/EducationForDeath'': This Disney short has one of the more horrific examples of the trope, as it details the life of a young German boy named Hans under the [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany Nazi regime]]. He's raised on fairy tales that depicts UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler as the dashing KnightInShiningArmor who saves Princess Germany from the WickedWitch named [[DemocracyIsBad Democracy]]. And when he goes to school, he's humiliated by his teacher for showing sympathy to the poor rabbit who got eaten by a fox, which causes Hans to repent and declare his hatred towards the rabbit and all things weak. This small lesson becomes the foundation for Hans' higher education, where he participates with his class in book burning and ransacking a church. The end of the short features Hans all grown-up as a loyal, hateful Nazi soldier marching into war and eventually... [[TitleDrop to his death]].

* The song "Don't Drag Me Down" by Music/SocialDistortion is about the history of racism in the United States and how it persists into the modern day. It opens with a straightforward explanation for why the problem has persisted so long: "Children are taught to hate."

* ''VideoGame/MassEffect'': Several examples.

* Though it's not the main message of the song, Shawn Mullins' "Shimmer" references this in the context of its larger exploration of the concept of human nature and trying to live a better life by reaching back to those positive elements. As part of this, Mullins paints a picture of a newborn baby, remarking on how a child is innocent and knows only love, but the world will "teach him how to hate".

* ''Fanfic/BaitAndSwitchSTO'': A considerable amount of ink is spilled in Rachel Connor's StoryArc on Earth-humans' dislike of genetic augments since the Eugenics Wars, to the point of teaching a severely slanted version of the Wars' history in schools. Rachel Connor was involuntarily turned into a genetic augment as an adult and struggles a lot with InternalizedCategorism over it, which she's gradually coaxed out of. In "Fanfic/FleshAndBlood", Kanril Eleya compares this to how she was taught in Bajoran temple school that "all Cardassians serve the Pah-Wraiths and all humans are cowards", which ended up putting her off of organized religion for most of a decade after she learned a more nuanced version of history from TheAlternet.

** "[[{{Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS7E6Raw}} Raw]]" leads the investigation to a local gun store that’s also a Neo-Nazi headquarters since its connected to a local shooting and death of an African American child. The owner’s son, Kyle, has been homeschooled his whole life by his father to hate all minority groups. Kyle had such a strong hatred towards non-whites and unwavering and devoted loyalty to his father’s beliefs that Fin himself felt sorry for him, despite Kyle’s offensive remarks towards him. Fin also believed due to his father’s teachings, Kyle never had a chance to think for himself.

* ''WesternAnimation/EducationForDeath'': This Disney short has one of the more horrific examples of the trope, as it details the life of a young German boy named Hans under the [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany Nazi regime]]. He's raised on fairy tales that depicts UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler as the dashing KnightInShiningArmor who saves Princess Germany from WickedWitch named [[DemocracyIsBad Democracy]]. And when he goes to school, he's humiliated by his teacher for showing sympathy to the poor rabbit who got eaten by a fox, which causes Hans to repent and declare his hatred towards the rabbit and all things weak. This small lesson becomes the foundation for Hans' higher education, where he participates with his class in book burning and ransacking a church. The end of the short features Hans all grown-up as a loyal, hateful Nazi soldier marching into war and eventually... [[TitleDrop to his death]].

* ''WesternAnimation/EducationForDeath'': This Disney short has one of the more horrific examples of the trope, as it details the life of a young German boy named Hans under the [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany Nazi regime]]. He's raised on fairy tales that depicts UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler as the dashing KnightInShiningArmor who saves Princess Germany from WickedWitch named [[DemocracyIsBad Democracy]]. And when he goes to school, he's humiliated by his teacher for showing sympathy to the poor rabbit who got eaten by a fox, which causes Hans to repent and declare his hatred towards the rabbit and all things weak. This small lesson becomes the foundation for Hans' higher education, where he participates with his class in book burning and ransacking a church. The end of the short features Hans all grown-u as a loyal, hateful Nazi soldier marching into war and eventually... [[TitleDrop to his death]].

* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': After nearly a hundred years of invading other nations, the Fire Nation's education system is turned into an elitist, imperialist indoctrination for many innocent children, all being raised to become loyal soldiers for [[BigBad Fire Lord Ozai]]. According to Fire Nation propaganda, the Fire Nation is a great nation spreading prosperity and wealth to its "inferior" neighbors, and thus they are totally justified in waging [[FinalSolution a war of genocide]] when said-nations resist their efforts. It even goes as far as creating complete fiction to better portray the Fire Nation as the victim, namely claiming that [[AdaptationalSelfDefense Fire Lord Sozin honorably fought and defeated the Air Nation Army]] rather than initiating a surprise and horrific invasion against a peaceful people. Luckily, Aang manages to deprogram one class of Fire Nation children by introducing them to dancing and parties, while Prince Zuko, heir to the throne, gets a good taste of reality outside the Fire Nation and then calls out his father for the lies that he's been raised on.