It is my understanding that the issues in Hong Kong are similar to the police brutality issue we face in America, of which I am very passionate about. Northern California-based art director Susana Sanchez-Young has mixed-race children.
She is Guatemalan and Nicaraguan and her husband is of Japanese and Chinese descent. Soo Youn is a Lily contributor.
Previously, she worked at ABC. Skip to content Life. Soo Youn. She has not yet seen the movie, which she had been looking forward to viewing. Japanese American actress Suzy Nakamura said she feels torn about the film. Recommended by The Lily. For years, bars have used code words to protect women on dates. Are they working? While these cartoons do not represent today's society, they are being presented as they were originally created, because to do otherwise would be the same as claiming these prejudices never existed.
What about other Disney films that are problematic? What about depictions of gender? Aladdin and Mulan don't include these warnings, but have similarly offensive attitudes. The opening song of Aladdin includes the line, 'It's barbaric, but hey, it's home'; the protagonists, Jasmine and Aladdin, are whitewashed, and the villains of the film all sport darker skin. Aditi Natasha Kini calls Aladdin 'a misogynist, xenophobic white fantasy', and Jasmine a prime example of 'white feminism as written by white dudes'.
The live action remake attempts to remedy some of these issues, but still runs into the issue of presenting brown people as a homogenous group, as opposed to a plethora of groups with their own distinct characteristics.
As an Asian woman, I feel conflicted about Mulan , because it co-opts a year-old Chinese story without acknowledging its roots — many of my friends thought it was an original Disney story. It also plays into 'Chinese' or 'Asian' stereotypes, including that of the typically 'meek' Chinese woman, and the notion that the only way for a woman to ensure 'honour' for herself and her family would be to adopt traits associated with being a warrior read: masculine.
All in all, I think Disney made the right decision to include these films. While there is value in pointing out incorrect or inappropriate behaviour, we are also at a point where we are perhaps a little too quick to declare someone or something 'cancelled'.
Many problematic depictions have occurred over the years, and we do ourselves no favours by ignoring them or pretending they did not exist. Some of these works are representative of society's values at the time at which they were made, and this should be fully acknowledged. Removing scenes or films that have racist material from the public consciousness is tantamount to rewriting cultural histories.
Many have suffered and continue to suffer to bring wider public awareness to these issues, and their work should not go unacknowledged. Work still needs to be done. But for now, I'm glad these messages exist. Hopefully the next generation of Disney fans will have more of an awareness of the media they consume, and this will spark more conversations that need to be had.
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We would now Spielberg's movie E. How is it that Michaelangelo's David is depicted as classic Greco-Roman male form or innumerable masters art works feature a "white" Christ? Were they "racist" in their actions or just defined by a "pop" culture? He may have been a racist by today's standards but perhaps we can term it "racique" that to describe the style rather than define the man. Thanks for the article I hope the awareness of the entertainment doesn't interfere with the audience enjoyment.
Hi Yen Yong, I am a 70 year old guy who grew up watching Disney pictures and cartoons. I enjoyed them as a child. It has never occurred to me to analyse them in the manner you have done. Remember I mentioned parts of the movie were filmed in China?
To be specific, filming occurred in the Xinjiang region of China where over a million Uigher Muslims and other minorities are being held in concentration camps and enduring conditions that, by the U. Eagle-eyed viewers noted that in the credits Disney gave special thanks to several government organizations in the region that have been facilitating genocide, and promptly revived BoycottMulan on social media.
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