http://www.units.muohio.edu/psybersite/disney/disneyculture.shtml
This website explains the problems Disney had to face from protestors and racial complaints from a wide fan base. The site gives examples from
Aladdin - "Dirty Arab"- Complaint from The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee.
The Lion King - Hyenas were voice over by Whoopi Goldberg and Cheech Marin. The hyenas are portratyed as African-American inner city ghetto equivalent of the jungle.
Pocahontas - The first film Disney made to stop recieving racial complaints - a young british man and a Native American this was created so that Disney could prove they had nothing against different races and they actually sent workers out to Jamestown, Virginia to make sure they got the characters correct.
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