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0/14/08 1st draft Disney’s Portrayal of Culture and Race virtues such as hard work have remained unchanged since Walt Disney first created Mickey films contain racist elements. Disney therefore faces a dilemma; how can the company maintain traditional American values while realizing the changing times of today's society? Three movies Lion King, jive talking hyenas were characters that lived in a jungle equivalent of an inner-city ghetto. Finally, the film Pocahontas is Disney’s answer to the previous criticisms on upcoming projects such as “The Frog Princess,” where, for the first time, Disney will depict a black princess. following protests from the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (7). The lyrics were changed in July 1993 from "Where they cut off your ear if they don't like your face/It's barbaric, but, hey, it's home," in the original release to "Where it's flat and immense and the heat is most controversial films in history, due to this incident. Other stereotypical portrayals of Arabs in the film include Aladdin riding on a magic carpet and the fact the narrator of the story was depicted as “an unsightly, filthy Arab” (7). Surprisingly, however, Aladdin’s theme song, “A Whole New World,” was performed by Peabo Bryson and Regina Belle, two African-American recording artists, and the music video for the song was played heavily on Black Entertainment featured films stated that “for selected films, we've tried to generate publicity in Asian-American publications, but we haven't done a fully targeted, integrated marketing program. They're a smaller group, but an important one and a wealthy one” (3). Hyenas are savage animals of the African savannah. In The Lion King, the hyenas in the movie contained African-American and Hispanic characterizations. Using the voices of Whoopi Goldberg and Cheech Marin, these animals resided in an inner city ghetto equivalent of the jungle. Their behavior and environment reinforced stereotypes of... [continues]

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