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.

Interpretation of the data

This is a good representation of what I am trying to prove.














I'm surprised that anyone thinks that shows its non-white, non-male characters anything more than fairly.













I'm glad that Nemo did not get any votes. It is the best movie of all time. It's crazy, though, that people think that Shrek I was racist.
















It's kind of lame that everyone tends to choose neutral whenever possible, but besides those, everyone chose to say that Disney shows women more negatively than other movie-makers
















This is a good graphic representation of the point I am trying to make. Disney is racist. End of story.

secondary research 2

Second Article:
Aladdin Animated Racism-
Does it make sense that one of the most racist Disney films is the most financially successful? I find this sad. The opening song is bashing the heritage of as many Arabs as there are people in the U.S. If I were Disney, I would not want to aggravate that many people.
Also, the video is in the stereotypical desert castle setting, with poverty, thieves, harem girls, and sketchy looking vendors. What a great way to portray a culture.
And why are all the Arab soldiers in the movie lacking a sense of justice? When the princess takes an apple and gives it to a starving child, a soldier tries to cut off her hand. When Aladdin cuts in, the soldier screams something about taking his head for a trophy. Again, why has Disney chosen to show Arabs this way? For entertainment.

Primary Research

For my primary research I plan to conduct a survey asking people's opinions about Disney and its lack of diversity and racism/sexism.

Here are my survey questions:
1. Disney is
a. strongly racist
b. mildly racist
c. neutral
d. mildly diverse
e. strongly diverse

2. Of the following movies, which do you think is the most racist?
a. Nemo
b. Aladdin
c. Shrek
d. Twilight

3. Who is the least diverse?
a. Pixar
b. Disney
c. Dreamworks

4. How do you think Disney portrays its non-white, male characters?
a. super-negatively
b. mildly-negatively
c. neutrally
d. mildly-positively
e. super-positively

5. Pixar portrays women more negatively than Disney
a. strongly agree
b. agree
c. neutral
d. disagree
e. strongly disagree