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Discrimination in Walt Disneys Aladdin

  • Date Submitted: 04/06/2010 05:13 PM
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The Walt Disney movie, “Aladdin”, is about a poor “street rat”, Aladdin, loving the Princess Jasmine. They can’t marry each other because of the law. This movie, yet entertaining, portrays stereotypical and discriminative things against Middle Eastern culture and race.
The movie starts with a merchant in a vast, barren, desert riding a camel over sand dunes. The desert area includes an oasis also. Then it moves into the town of Agrabah, with other merchants selling goods and onion shaped domes on the Saltins palace.
In Agrabah, thievery is normal; also thieves appear unclean and very poor with rags as clothes. Also if they were caught stealing, store clerks would cut off their hand. Also women are portrayed wrong in it. The married women being fat while the single women look basically like a belly dancer. Also in the movie the princess Jasmine is too stupid to even think of paying for an apple. The merchant in the beginning tries to sell you things that are broken. Like when he says but this antique coffee maker and fry maker combo, indestructible and it then just breaks. Making the impression that the merchants sell crappy merchandise. Also in the movie it mentioned that the ones with the money make all the rules, which isn’t true.
Many things in this movie are out of place with things that are ahead of the time period and things that are different traditions from Middle Eastern culture. These traditions are India’s traditions they include the snake charmer, fire eater, man lying on a bed of nails, a sword swallower, and girls with the Indian red dot in the middle of their forehead. Many of the things ahead of the time period were from the Genie. Such as turning into a submarine, being a plane stewardess, magician, newscaster, or using lights, cars, slot machines to name a few of the many. Most of these are to add comic relief in the movie, but it ruins the main time period it is based in.
Aladdin had two sides good and evil. Good being Jasmine and...

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