Monday, December 3, 2012

Disney Diversity

     Though this specific example is from a movie, and we are choosing to focus on television media, I thought it is important to point out that even cartoons geared at very young children are beginning to show interracial couples.  Disney's "The Princess and the Frog" is a great example with an African-American princess and a Brazilian prince, living happily ever after (of course!).  There was still some backlash over this movie, mostly because the prince was not African-American as well, which made some of this population feel that it was showing discrimination against men of color.  In our opinion, a great depiction of a diverse, happy couple.  To Disney, we say Nice Work!  You are showing our younger generations that diversity is okay.  You can't please them all, but this sure is a great start!

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