Lippi-Green
When you were eight years of age, did you ever think that watching a cartoon may have an influence on you? Or did you think it was entertainment? Rosina Lippi-Green, the author of "Teaching Children How to Discriminate," expresses her view regarding the influence children receive when watching Disney films. Lippi-Green argues that Disney films have a heavy impact on a child's perception of viewing people. She claims that children learn to assign values on the basis of variation in language linked to race, ethnicity, and homeland. In her conclusion, she states the following sentence: "What children learn from the entertainment industry is to be comfortable with same and to be wary with other and that language is a prime and ready diagnostic for the division of what is approachable and what is best left alone"(502). An extended close reading can be done on Lippi-Green's summarized conclusion and the words same and other can be observed and analyzed. How do the words same and other relate to the whole text?Throughout Lippi-Green's essay, Lippi-Green provides many statistics and facts. One of the facts she presents is the fact that by majority, the main characters in Disney films speak MUS
A representative from the American Arab Anit-Discrimnation Committee pointed out that from the film Aladdin, "good guys - Aladdin, Princess Jasmine and her father - talk like Americans, while all other Arab characters have heavy accents. According to Lippi-Green what this means is that white children are being taught to fear the other. So the word same means white people, or people speaking MUSE. Wary means cautious or to figure out if your safe. Not only is this racist but it is also a stereotype. Why does Lippi-Green write that the entertainments industry teaches children to be comfortable with the same? Because if the same people are always known as the good guys then the other people are known as the bad guys. Bad meaning taking negative actions and having an inappropriate motivation. If a white child watches Aladdin and sees that all the people with an Arabian accent are bad then this may lead the child in thinking that all Arabian people act like this. According to Lippi-Green, the way the entertainment industry teaches children is by indirectly telling children that people with accents are know to carry out bad actions and motivations where as people of white skin are known to carry out the right actions and proper motivations. Disney movies are teaching children that "sames" (white people) are all the good innocent people. " Most of the other characters in Aladdin are considered the bad guys meaning that people with an Arab accent are considered bad. People who speak MUSE/white people can be approached, people who speak in a foreign accent or are of colored skin best be left alone. Although not pointed out, Lippi-Green argues her point is to be true for white viewers only by assuming that the audience reading her essay is a white one. Films use language variation and accent to express character which draws perceptions about ethnicity race and gender.
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