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I’ve learned over the decades that when I am talking to someone, I am talking to their TV/movie images of the topic or the people who are the subject of that talk.
If Indians come up, or 1950s America, or women in the military, they are seeing images from the screen in their heads, they aren’t mentally searching text or books they have read and the images are usually the opposite of what I am trying to explain, and almost impossible to replace with more real mental pictures from discussion.
It is hard to beat those drilled in movie/TV show visions of history and existence.
Imagery ended the British Empire.