On main strategy is finding a common enemy, either foreign or domestic. Another is providing economic incentives. Another is through propaganda campaigns and false history.
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The correct answer is moral panic for both the blank spaces.
According to the sociologist Stanley Cohen, moral panic refers to when media portrayals of certain issues and reactions of authority figures and the general public to these issues fuels panic and even actual fear in society. Through the process of creating moral panic, certain people or social groups are seen dangers or threats to the well-being of others and the well-being of society.
Since they viewed it as a great way to 'decrease the surplus population', having a different, more sympathetic outlook would have helped. Giving them food they could cook and eat would also have helped: the Irish had a lot of trouble trying to prepare and eat the Indian meal they sent. They could also have opened more soup kitchens, told the landlords to show a little leniency and stop evicting people because heir livelihoods were gone and their means of paying rent with them. But they wanted to get rid of the Irish, and so they did. There was a famine in the Scottish Highlands in 1846 and because of charitable efforts nowhere near as many people died. They could have saved them by showing charity, but they didn't.
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