Struggles In Zootopia

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Zootopia, as a whole, is about discrimination towards the different species in the animal kingdom, offering a direct relationship to that of the discrimination towards other races, ethnicities, and religions that we face in the real world. From the start of the film, Judy is discouraged by not only her peers, but her parents and society as a whole from becoming a police officer because of her species. Even when she performs higher than all of the other students at the academy and eventually gets placed in the Zootopia’s highest ranked precinct, she is still looked upon as less than those who tend to aesthetically suit the job. The struggle that Judy faces in this film mirrors the struggle that any one person that is not white, unfortunately,

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