Peter Rabbit Controversy
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So they made fun of food allergies?
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Not to say we should pretend allergies don't exist, but showing kids a funny scene where someone is having what is, to them, essentially poison thrown at them? That could go badly.
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1) A stuttering cartoon character pig (Porky Pigg). I wonder how that made small children with speech impediments feel when they watched these cartoons. Actually it may have had a cathartic effect by showing them that others stutter too.
2) African-American cartoon characters depicted with accentuated physical features.
3) American Indians always being portrayed as evil and bloodthirsty savages.
Today we still have such things but they are more cleverly disguised; such as, in American movies the bad guys always seem to have Southern American (USA) accent which subliminally puts the listener in mind of southern racism, or a German accent which does the same thing by drawing on the fact that viewers are conditioned from many past movies in which Nazis (speaking in films in English for convenience) display a thick German accent. The Brits do the same thing with dialect in their movies I think by having the bad guys always speaking with a Cockney or Irish twang. (I'd love to hear a Brit's opinion on this.)
One very old American TV program has received a lot of flack for racism which I do not agree with. That show was The Little Rascals. It is true that the Negro child in the group was often displayed humorously with regard to his race from time to time, but the most important thing to keep in mind was that the Negro children were totally accepted and treated as equals by the white children. These shows were popular at a time when there was still a lot of racism in the USA. Actually, I think this program helped to educate white children to accept black kids more than it did to demean African Americans.
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Here in the UK it's far more about class than accent, although they are closely linked. Depending on the kind of the bad guy, they may see have a thick northern accent, the stereotypical "rood boy" accent common in London, or a monstrously posh RP.DATo wrote: ↑23 Apr 2018, 06:14 When I was a kid TV and movies were far less politically correct than they are today.
1) A stuttering cartoon character pig (Porky Pigg). I wonder how that made small children with speech impediments feel when they watched these cartoons. Actually it may have had a cathartic effect by showing them that others stutter too.
2) African-American cartoon characters depicted with accentuated physical features.
3) American Indians always being portrayed as evil and bloodthirsty savages.
Today we still have such things but they are more cleverly disguised; such as, in American movies the bad guys always seem to have Southern American (USA) accent which subliminally puts the listener in mind of southern racism, or a German accent which does the same thing by drawing on the fact that viewers are conditioned from many past movies in which Nazis (speaking in films in English for convenience) display a thick German accent. The Brits do the same thing with dialect in their movies I think by having the bad guys always speaking with a Cockney or Irish twang. (I'd love to hear a Brit's opinion on this.)
One very old American TV program has received a lot of flack for racism which I do not agree with. That show was The Little Rascals. It is true that the Negro child in the group was often displayed humorously with regard to his race from time to time, but the most important thing to keep in mind was that the Negro children were totally accepted and treated as equals by the white children. These shows were popular at a time when there was still a lot of racism in the USA. Actually, I think this program helped to educate white children to accept black kids more than it did to demean African Americans.
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It's overwhelmingly the case that the South is overrepresented here, so that tends to narrow down the range of accents they tend to choose from.
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Norach wrote: ↑23 Apr 2018, 10:31
Here in the UK it's far more about class than accent, although they are closely linked. Depending on the kind of the bad guy, they may see have a thick northern accent, the stereotypical "rood boy" accent common in London, or a monstrously posh RP.
It's overwhelmingly the case that the South is overrepresented here, so that tends to narrow down the range of accents they tend to choose from.
Many thanks for your input. Though I am a Yank I have a great interest in all things British. It is especially fascinating to get insights from people who live in the British Isles on relatively trivial things such as this.
As far as a class system goes: America is no different, except here it isn't determined by hereditary title, but rather by how much money you have.
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Kids pick up odd things from odd places and you can't avoid everything that might potentially give them ideas. But this, and those scenes from Showdogs, just seem like such an obviously bad idea that I can't believe they passed all the tests they must have in order to reach the final film.
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