Secondary Research 3

For more data, I personally watched the Disney film Peter Pan. It was sickening. All the scenes including the Native Americans were hideously racist. As a result of this film, children will think that all Native Americans sit cross-legged and say "How". Also, the Native Americans were always wearing warpaint. Is Disney trying to show that all Native Americans are constantly fighting? This movie has been giving misconceptions to so many little children who do not wonder if what they are watching is factual or not. All they want is to have fun. They do not know that they are being fed other people's racist opinions. This is pitiful.

Bibliography

Robertson, Gail. "Snow Whitey? Stereotyping in the Magical Kingdom." Canadian Dimension Sept./Oct. 1998:

Shaheen, Jack. "Aladdin Animated Racism". Cineast. July 1993: P. 49.

Reflection

After seeing all of the data supporting my opinion that Disney is racist, my stance has been strengthened. I had already known that Disney had a tendency to be racist, but all the data, reviews, and movies that I have recently seen make it so much apparent in my mind. I will never watch another Disney film without criticizing it for its lack of diversity or misrepresentation of people groups. Oh well. They weren't that good anyways.

Conclusions

From my obviously extensive research, I have deduced that Disney is, indeed, racist. All of the movies I watched had some misrepresentation of a culture or people group. Every article and movie review I read about Disney films have said that Disney is portraying its non-white, non-male characters in an offensive light. Last but not least, the majority of the people that I interviewed believed and showed that they thought that Disney is racist. I think that this compilation of data clearly shows that Disney has shown itself to be at least mildly racist.