Mickey Mouse Monopoly 4/5

Part 4

Category:

Education

Tags:

• mickey
• mouse
• disney

[mykinfoknew]

@ebonifragaria It's what you call modelling of the psyche. It doesn't happen immediately. These videos help to mould the mindsets of the Western mentality. So these kids are moulded by subconsciously being made to identify themselves w/ these characters AND then go out into the society that treat them based on the ideas and concepts of what they've been moulded to accept that they are and the cycle is perpetuated.

Encouraging self hate.

[QuestionRenee]

To defend Dinsey a little, on the savage song, I always thought they were saying SANDWITCHES. :D

[dnightwalker]

@manbot47 Dude, I don't want to start a flame war. I just really don't get all this Asian groups dishing companies like Disney for how their "harmful" portrait of other Asian cultures, when the same Asian countries are doing far worst things. Im sorry I just don't see how anything that Disney does is worst than Kodomo no Jikan (Wikipedia it)

[manbot47]

@dnightwalker kudos you got the message, this was totally a troll starting a flame war. Now go ahead and keep insulting and belittling other cultures. Can you please make broad insulting remarks about eastern-Europeans next?

[xHeyItsCami]

@dnightwalker I agree with you on that. The Japanese portrayal, especially in animation - is much worse.

[3brerfox]

Here is something that you haters all overlook...if you don't want your kids to learn "bad" values from Disney...DON'T LET 'EM WATCH THE FREAKING MOVIES! Are the marketing gimmicks everywhere? Of course, but exercise parental control instead of pissing and moaning how indomitable they are. Second, if they do watch them, seize the opportunity and sit down with your kids and teach them what IS right. So stop whining about how unfair it is and do something about it.

[ElectricMayhem87]

@3brerfox Given the choice between sugar-coating a history of bloodshed and traumatizing little children, why would they even make such a movie at all? Oh, yeah, because they need to keep their cash flow going. To hell with integrity; they need ca$h! :\

[LovelesOne]

At the end of the day at least the Native American's lived in a REAL democracy, not some banana republic like Disney promotes. Guess they had the last laugh huh?

[Sully64ify]

@3brerfox - I don't care that Disney wants to make money. As you say, we all do: Goldman Sachs, drug dealers, quack doctors, everyone. That's why we don't judge organizations on their desire to make money. We judge them on HOW they make it. DisneyCorp would be just as lucrative whether or not it dealt in gender and racial types. However, they choose to use them, and we are perfectly right to criticize them for making their money in a way that is distasteful at best, damaging at worst.

[Sully64ify]

I applaud youre willing to research; I hope you recognize that youre in a tiny minority. Few kids have ANY desire to research the historical accuracy of a Disney translation. In any case, there is plenty of childrens literature that is entirely appropriate for young kids: some are myths and fairy tales, others are later works of fiction. I can name you 20 books without trying. This also doesn't preclude the fact that Disney might *gasp* actually WRITE a story that avoids these issues.

[3brerfox]

@Sully64ify Yes, Disney wants to make money. Who doesn't? But when my friends cried how inaccurate the movie was to history, it forced me to ask, "Okay then, what's the real story?" and do some research. It's the same with all the books. I look at them because Disney piqued my interest. Not to mention most all original fairy tales and stories have NO child-safe material by today's standards, but Disney still does it anyway because we like it. History in films encourages me to learn.

[Sully64ify]

@3brerfox -- I agree with your last, but it does beg the question : "If the real events of Pocohontas are inappropriate material for kids, why take and warp them into something they're not?"

The world is quite full of material for kids without Disney skewing the lessons of history into their sales product. Their decision to do so indicates that they want to take something that's already well "branded" (this "cute" love story), and twist it as necessary to turn themselves a dime.