Thursday, November 12, 2009

Disney and the society

Today, Disney became one of the biggest producer in the animation industry in the world, its products reached very wide and connected to all kids in the world. How Disney impacts today's kid: positive or negetive, is one of the issue that most parents and scholars disccuss about in today's society. Pocahontas is one of the most successful animate made by Disney, but there are some elements are very imappropriate to kids to watch and very offensive for some cultural group.; Such as, in this animate, people doing  "Wowowo" as to represent they got excited in Indian culture. This is learned by a lot kids, and they did it to the people who they think they are the Indians. This became very offensive when kids did "Wowowo" to "Indians". In the reality, the real Indian may not doing "Wowowo" in the live, but this wrong concept was created by Disney, and all today's kids believed "Wowowo" is part of Indian's life.

In Disney's animations, we don't often see the main characters in black (expect "Princess and Frog" that will come up by this December). The majority main characters in Disney's were white, but not other colors, so it became very doubtful for people to think Disney doing the races in its industry. In order to ripe off this "races" element, by the end of year 2009, Disney came up with an animation "Princess and Frog", which made the Princess black in this movie.

Some parents complained on Disney because it is so fascinate by today's kids. Kids want their parents to buy them the Disney's products, and parents think Disney led them to spend more money for unneccessary things.

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