Oh great! You made me remember Coco and now I am crying again. Thanks a lot!
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I want to argue against it but I'm too fat to dispute it.
I won't stand for this!
plops down heavily into chair panting
is there truly a movement against Disney’s Cultural Appropriation or are these just examples of Disney sharing or bringing cultures to the mainstream?
I mean, the post is just a joke, but is the underlying theme at least something people really care about? More than they care about the representation these movies have given to these cultures?
Pocahontas and Mulan come to mind immediately as movies that pissed a lot of people off. Pocahontas especially since they whitewashed an already whitewashed story.
Yea, but I dont think that that was for cultural appropriation, but historically inaccuracy as you said and cultural insensitivity.
The exploitation of cultural history, inaccurate or not, is appropriation.
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is there truly a movement against Disney’s Cultural Appropriation
100%. As the first example I can think of out of pocket (and there are many more if you take a cursory look at any of their movies), they tried to file a trademark to claim "Dia de los Muertos,” or “Day of the Dead”. The backlash was pretty fucking insane.
That one is shitty, but mind giving more example? As a non-white and non-westerner i'm very confused about all these "cultural appropriation".
Some westerners believe that culture should not be shared and everyone should keep to their own culture or else risk appropriating that culture, which is seen as a type of colonialism. I disagree with this notion but I’m in the minority on this.
I’m Jewish and it would be sick if more people ate matzah ball soup. This however would be seen as cultural appropriation though.
It would be like if someone stole our Torah from us word for word, wait a second the Christians did that.
We’re not allowed to complain tho…
Of course because when they steal our holy books and make fun of us (seriously I cannot stand the stereotype that we're all chassidish) its all ok. Imo im completely fine with people spreading Jewish culture as long as they dont claim ownership.
lol slightly related but I’m brought back to that time in English class where we had to ask people around us their ethnic background and I mentioned I was Jewish, the guy got into a heated argument with me about how I can’t technically be Canadian because I’m Jewish. Genuinely bewildered hehe.
If he finds out about the terms Ashkenazi and Sefardi hes gonna loose his mind
I don’t think we could have gone to those types of nuances. It would create a quantum singularity.
Yeah, that’s inaccurate, sorry.
It’s actually a pretty nuanced topic, that has been attacked and thus muddled intentionally, but the simplified version is similar to fraud.
Basically, if it’s not your culture, but you act like it is and get paid (or equivalent) for representing it in some way, then it is appropriation. Whether that matters or not depends on power relations, so people at the wrong end of the genocide stick, for instance the Cree, don’t want people to make and sell something like headdresses that are supposed to be reserved for very specific purposes. It’s a ripoff and wrong on multiple levels.
Think ‘stolen valour’ responses for people wearing military medals without the right, but add on lost income and a history of shit and abuse as salt in the wound.
Hm, it think it's seen more as taking something from a marginalised culture and making it a fad - like wearing dreads as a caucasian - and therefore removing this specific aspect from its cultural context.
Now I also don't quite agree with this interpretation and I, too, prefer the more positive connotation of taking part in it and sharing cultural phenomena. If someone borrows from my culture I generally like it, as long as it is done respectfully and in good faith, but I am not part of a marginalised group.
Honestly the people who confuse honest cultural imitation or fusion with appropriation aren’t thinking critically about what harm is being done.
American exceptionalism produces a lot of these false positive responses, which is super annoying because it’s a real problem with economic consequences.
E.g. dreads is an ancient hairstyle for different ethnicities, cf. any sadhu, and no one is getting rich off of it.
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OP would be complaining that they didn't show enough diversity if they didn't have these movies. Can't win with some people.
Cultural appropriation is a term made up by people who just want to be mad about something.
And wasn't it the whole world in the last movie, WALL-E?
Yes, but it's set far in the future, long after every corner of the planet has been thoroughly Americanized
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Do you think we, outside of the US, hadn't heard of Scotland before Merida?
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Before people take this too seriously, I think Toy Story was set in America and so was Inside Out and they seemed pretty slim. I'm sure there's a lot of others too.
People that take it too seriously deserve to be upset.
Additionally, there was no America in WALL-E, it was all Buy n Large corporation. Not that I disagree with the memes premise, however.
As an American, I'm willing to speculate that Buy N Large might not even be based on my country.
Goes back to sipping a Big Gulp
"Big Gulps, huh? Alright! Well, see ya later!"
Everytime.
I just think Americans should learn to take a joke considering they're living in one ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I dunno maybe some fresh new material would be nice for once
Honey... you first. It's kind of hard for us to make fun of your culture when milk can grow one faster. You've got like 5 unique things to your country overall and (somehow) two of them involve dead or endangered kids. Otherwise any individual insult has to be state specific because the United States is the only country on the planet that even the 10th psychiatrist would say is schizophrenic.
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Inside Out is Canada, no?
Unless there's a Minnesota and San Francisco in Canada, no.
You mean San Franstinktown!
It is next to the ocean, which doesn't smell that great.
Oh, right. That fact definitely never registered in my mind. I've only watched each film once, and my impression was they moved to San Francisco from Canada. Hence my doubt.
Must've been all the hockey.
Turning Red was in Canada tho
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I would guess that Cars was set in the post-human location of the USA.
What's the Italian one?
Luca (2021).
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