16/10/26 02:01:30.39 4EAQBa0V0.net
長いんですけどよろしくお願いします。
Disney has very, very few Asian or Asian American characters in their children's films. And that's probably why the Siamese Cats really stand out for me.
If you look at those cats very carefully, they clearly have those stereotypical Asian features: they have slanted eyes, buckteeth and very heavy accents. They are also depicted as sinister, cunning and manipulative.
If we compared the Siamese cats with Mulan, I must say that Disney has made very significant improvement in the visual portrayal of Chinese.
However, in order to create this model feminist figure, China is portrayed as probably the most sexist and oppressive society in all Disney's children's films.
We see a little boy bully a little girl. We hear people saying that women have no value at all if they don't get interesting thing is, this match-making interviews in the movie actually did not really exist in China.
And it has been made very clear that women should just follow men's orders instead of speaking up their minds in that society
The issue for me, is not really about whether Disney should or should not appropriate other cultures' stories or whether ancient China was less or more oppressive than Disney's portrayal.
The question is: what type of stories get invented, circulated, perpetuated in public imagination and why?
The lyrics of Aladdin's opening song "Arabian Nights" were written by Howard Ashman.
He actually submitted two versions of the lyrics and Disney chose the version which was considered racist by members of the Arab American community.
The song, it goes, 'I come from a land from a very far place, where the caravan camels roam. Where they cut off your ear if they don't like your face. It's barbaric, but hey it's home. "That song sets up the kind of people that live in Agrabah.