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Disney movies are based on fictional characters that have been featured as part of the Disney character line-up. The most popular ones are the princess movies. The six original members of the franchise were Snow White, Cinderella, Aurora, Ariel, Belle and Jasmine, who were later joined by Pocahontas, Mulan, Tiana, and Rapunzel.
All this princess movies are view as innocent movies, with the beautiful message of love, where the princess find the prince charming and they live a happy never ending story. But it isn’t the truth most of this movie have a hidden message, most of them discriminate the women and idolize the male figure and some of them are very racism.
Discrimination is the prejudicial treatment of an individual based on their membership in a certain group or category. It involves the actual behaviors towards groups such as excluding or restricting members of one group from opportunities that are available to another group
Snow White is a fictional character and the main protagonist from Walt Disney's first animated feature film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, (1937). She is also considered the first member of the Disney Princess group of characters. At this movie we can be aware of the discrimination at the female sex.
When Snow White escape of her stepmother and found the house of the seven dwarfs, she beg them to let her stayed and the only reason why they accept was because she promise to do the labors of the house like cooking, cleaning, washing. She also shows the sternness of a mother, she teaches the seven dwarfs how to watch their hands. But she never shown bad humor by doing those things, it like she understands that were her duties.
Also in this movie exist racism because the put Snow White like the most beautiful girl in town, and the beginning her mother said “ I want a beautiful girl, with skin white as snow and lips red like blood” so they limited the beauty to the white skin.
This movie focus the story in beauty because

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