Almost everyone can remember sitting around the TV with their family. How parents would tell their kids to hush: the movie was starting. A lot of great and memorable family movies come from Disney, one of which Peter Pan. As many adults are re-watching it full of excitement and nostalgia, something seems off with the the Blackfoot characters. As a kid, many don’t remember such blatant racism. The Native American portrayal in Peter Pan is; stereotypical, unrealistic and historically inaccurate. The characters presented only give a narrow insight to what Blackfoot culture is and the characters are created by Disney to be a joke, creating a single story.
A single story is made of incomplete stereotypes, and often provides a narrow view. Other movies are so similar that it has promoted these stereotypes to be ‘real, 100% correct’. Often created by an outside view. The story of Peter Pan was made by James …show more content…
John, one of the children, after exclaiming “ Injuns! “, He describes how they are “ Cunning, but unintelligent. “ This is a stereotype that is easily disproven. Many people aren’t just carbon copies of each other; everyone has different intellectual levels and race has nothing to do with it. People often associate intellect level with how people speak. For example; Because the ‘Injuns’ are ‘unintelligent’, they must always speak monosyllabically, right? However,. Ana póókaawa ínoyii ani imitááyi;(pronounced an-(w)a pookaa-wa ino-yii an-(y)i imitaa-yi) means The child saw a dog. The language(and people) are far more complex than ‘hana’ and ghanda’ Despite the complex language, many still think that the language is meaningless. While the chief and the other Blackfoot people sing, they state that the repetitive phrases mean nothing. “ Hana means what gana mean, and ganda means that too,” when the definition of a language is words with
A single story is made of incomplete stereotypes, and often provides a narrow view. Other movies are so similar that it has promoted these stereotypes to be ‘real, 100% correct’. Often created by an outside view. The story of Peter Pan was made by James …show more content…
John, one of the children, after exclaiming “ Injuns! “, He describes how they are “ Cunning, but unintelligent. “ This is a stereotype that is easily disproven. Many people aren’t just carbon copies of each other; everyone has different intellectual levels and race has nothing to do with it. People often associate intellect level with how people speak. For example; Because the ‘Injuns’ are ‘unintelligent’, they must always speak monosyllabically, right? However,. Ana póókaawa ínoyii ani imitááyi;(pronounced an-(w)a pookaa-wa ino-yii an-(y)i imitaa-yi) means The child saw a dog. The language(and people) are far more complex than ‘hana’ and ghanda’ Despite the complex language, many still think that the language is meaningless. While the chief and the other Blackfoot people sing, they state that the repetitive phrases mean nothing. “ Hana means what gana mean, and ganda means that too,” when the definition of a language is words with