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Originally Posted by ozkai
I think you may be better our projecting on "racist USA stereotypes of Native Americans in America".
Really, I can't imagine why you would be wondering about them in Japan.
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I disagree.
I think it's an interesting fact that Disney is international, meaning that its films are spreading worldwide - meaning that its racist ideas and negative stereotypes are also spreading worldwide. In a country like Japan, where there aren't many people of different ethnicities to prove otherwise, it's quite easy for a child here to watch Peter Pan and believe that Native Americans are "red because they once kissed a maid, and never stopped blushing since."
We're in an international community now, thanks to the media and the Internet. I think it's silly to say, "This is an American issue, and therefore it stops mattering outside of America."