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Stereotypes In The 2003 Disney Movie, Brother Bear

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There are many different stereotypes out there that wrongly depicts how one person would act depending on what they look like. Particularly, indigenous peoples have been stereotyped. With the expansion of media in this era, we can easily view how terrible these stereotypes are and have been for many years. Residential schools were fed by the ongoing assumptions on indigenous peoples, some TV shows and movies that are made for younger kids contain racist acts, and their culture has been used as a marketing strategy.

Residential schools were built off of the horrible stereotypes and assumptions about indigenous peoples. Children were forced out of their homes and sent to live at these boarding schools. The people at the residential schools believed …show more content…

Although we still have the odd racist media, I feel we have upgraded alot when it comes to children's movies and TV shows. During this course we watched the 2003 Disney movie, Brother Bear. This film had a great representation of Indigenous culture. It showed the audience a positive view of their beliefs and encouraged them to indulge themselves in other cultures. We need movies like this one to be produced. If we don't change the depictions of indigenous peoples in kids TV media these harmful stereotypes will continue in the future.

Some stereotypes of indigenous people consist of aggressive, savage and many sports teams take advantage of this and use them as their logos. As most teams have strong vicious animals to show that the other team should be intimidated, teams that have indigenous people as their mascot implies they think these people are the same as animals. This topic is very controversial, especially to sports fans. The Cleveland Indians, the Atlanta Braves and the Nepean Redskins and three examples and famous sports teams that have commercialized Indigenous …show more content…

The differences between each other is what scares us because new things seem scary. When we are uneducated on different lifestyles and traditions, we assume they are bad because they aren't ours. I feel it is time to leave the stereotypes behind and learn to embrace each other's differences because having differences in society is the only way we improve and grow. “If you can't write about us with a love for who we are as people, what we've survived, what we've accomplished despite all the attempts to keep us from doing so” writes Alica Elliot in the book A Mind Spread Out On The Ground, “if you can’t look at us as we are and feel your pupils go wide, rendering all stereotypes a sham, a poor copy, a disgrace—then why are you writing about us at

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