The Mickey Mouse Monopoly was an eye opening experience for me as I watched the video and read up on it. While Disney really surprised me with the stereotypes they display in there films that are mainly directed towards youth crowds. Millions of children watch the Disney channels each and everyday these children all come from different backgrounds and cultures. Parents are supposed to feel safe when there children are watching the Disney but after doing my research they shouldn’t. During a sit down conversation with Teijada Wilkins she believes Disney’s animated cartoon “The Proud Family” is stereotypical to African-American families. While I feel the exact same way about this particular cartoon. The Proud Family displays an African-American family with Hispanic neighbors, a grandmother that lives with the family and loud obnoxious individual’s bullies that roam the street picking on smaller children. I believe this shouldn’t be tolerated on television channels today especially those targeted at our youth on a daily basis. While this is a problem that needs to be looked into because this is not only harmful to our youth but Disney is targeting race and ethnicity as well as genders. This can lead to a problem that can cause national attention. After watching the movie on the Mickey Mouse Monopoly there was a women being interviewed who made a valid point. She states “Disney is looked upon as a subliminal message and it’s absorbed by our young people’s minds as entertainment”. How can you call racism and stereotyping entertainment to children and make billions off of it? Disney likes to hide the messages there sending through different characters and there meaning in movies and television shows. Also during my reading of Mickey Mouse Monopoly PDF file it states “The problem is that, as a private corporation, this power is concentrated in the hands of a few who are neither elected nor accountable to most of those affected by that power”. I believe if no one stands up to Disney these issues will still occur for many years to come.
Joshua Thomas
Work Cited
Mickey Mouse Monopoly PDF File
www.youtube.com/mickeymousemonopoly
Interview. Teijada Wilkins Student University of Alabama
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