Stereotypes In Big Hero 6

Big Hero 6 Most people walk through life checking off boxes which coincidentally identifies their ethnicity. However, the box check is often flawed because the majority of people living on this globe are made up of more than one racial or ethnic group. Moreover, many people's appearance don't line up with their racial or cultural group that they most identify with. Big hero 6 breaks the racial mold and the film evaluates racial representations in cinema, reminding film scholars that dominant ideologies regarding race are often as naturalized and entrenched in media as they are in society (Kelts). With more people adopting children and with more people in interracial marriages, Big Hero 6 is a great example of what cohesion means among cultures

San Fransokyo is a fictional fusion of Tokyo and San Francisco—a bright city with a medley of warm lights and cooler white lights inspired by blending the atmospheric temperaments of Tokyo and San Francisco. In the next scene, the film introduces Hiro Hamada, our fourteen-year-old Japanese-American protagonist, and his older brother Tadashi, as well as their caucasian aunt Cass; the trio live in a San Fransokyan Victorian house turned Japanese-style coffee shop, the Lucky Cat Cafe, where Cass sells donuts alongside Yakisoba. Even this early on, it is clear that the film abounds with notions of cultural hybridity—a view shared by the cast and crew(Big Hero

Critics praised the film in terms reminiscent of the postcolonial sense of hybridity, such as a review by Robbie Collin in The Telegraph stating, “In Big Hero 6, cultures don’t clash, they compound”. Likewise, Japanese-American popular culture expert Roland Kelts, writing for The New York Times , noted, “authentic details add up to a portrait of two onscreen cultures sharing the same world, undiluted by their affinities, tethered by mutual respect”