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Negative Stereotypes For Teenagers

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Introduction: American kids and teenager have always struggled with accepting or respecting themselves. Other people are making those who are struggling to have a hard time with themselves. The entertainment industry has a responsibility to implement diverse characters in their programming for kids and teenagers that don’t perpetuate wrong stereotypes. This fits the purpose to help develop good character on children and teenagers. Some kids and teenagers don’t really see the outcomes in society because they are mostly influenced by their friends or parents who think very stereotypically of the world. When they’re so influenced by their parents or friends with stereotypical minds they begin to believe it and they keep spreading negative thoughts …show more content…

We can see it that many of these negative stereotypes come from kids movies or shows. In the movie Aladdin, The mic showed us that in the movie Aladdin some of their song lyrics are screening a bad representation of who the Arabs really are. Disney used Arab and Oriental tropes as the characters to sing these song lyrics “…Where they cut off your ear, If they don 't like your face...”. Here they are being very stereotypical about Arabic people are very mean, harsh and scary people. This causes kids to think very highly that we should fear Arabic people because they don’t do have good intentions in the world and this causes them to think very racist. Another example Yes magazine shows is us is in the movie Peter Pan. They say the movie is very hard to watch today because like every classical Disney movie they are coming off as racist or sexist. In Peter Pan is a scene where Peter finds the Indians and they sing a song called is presented song “What Makes the Red Man Red” and they is basically saying that the Indians didn 't know anything and that their language a lot of the worst mean the same thing. They are making fun out of the Indians while they were making them look like fools because for their knowledge and their language. In the last example, the Huffington post says is that it doesn’t matter that Disney is making their princesses more diverse they still have the same look the thin body, doe eyes, and tiny hands and feet. This is just keeping the same perspective and they are staying put and they are not going above and beyond. Even though they have diverse characters like Mulan and Pocahontas some little girls that don’t have the same body type won’t be able to feel to identify themselves with any princess since they all look the same but have different races. What we can come from this is that they be still a lot of bad stereotypical views of characters presented and we need to try to

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