Open Door Policy

 

 

This political cartoon is about the Open Door Policy. The cartoonist is trying to tell people that the United States is blocking out countries to trade with China. I think that other people can think that the United States is just trying to "mark their territory" and say that they (The United States) wants to have the first bid on trading with China. The cartoonist uses the techniques labelling and analogy to make this political cartoon persuasive. The labelling is used to shoe that the opening doors are really China's door opening up to trading with other countries. The analogy is the United States being the door keeper to China's trade. There is the analogy that United States is a guard for China's trading doors. This cartoon supports my opinion on American imperialism because I felt like the United States was taking too much power to try and control the world and gain every territory that they could get their little hands on. I think that the United States believe about manifest destiny had gone a little too far.

 

"The Open Door Policy Cartoon." West Valley College, Saratoga CA. Web. 21 Dec. 2011. <http://instruct.westvalley.edu/kelly/Distance_Learning/History_17B/Lecture08/open_door_notes.htm>.