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They already did.
This poll comes across as pretty biased to say the least. I don't know why people keep using this community to push their personal agenda.
I'm not pushing any agenda. I honestly don't understand why regulating what races can wear what costumes is a thing, and how that's not racism.
I chose "No, it's good for children to learn about and identify with many cultures so that they respect them," but I am also happy that they took this particular costume off the shelves. The problem with this costume is when you look at it, it's very jarring and obviously a little insensitive. The picture they have here is of a similar colored child wearing the costume and it still looks weird so I can only imagine how off-putting it would be to see a child with a drastically different skin tone in it. I believe that this was a stupid move on Disney's part, instead they should have done away with the faux muscles and made the skin toned fabric shear, this would allow for this argument of changing a child's skin tone a non issue as that's where I predict a lot of the support for the banning of the costume lies.
So why did I choose the No option when I obviously see why it would make so many people mad? Well because if Disney had done this costume in a more sensitive way I'm sure we would have had some backlash on it anyways because the main argument is, "It was wrong to sell a costume that allowed children to pretend to be another race," and that's where my disagreement with the decision lies.
I remember that when I was little I dressed as Pocahontas for Halloween. The movie had just come out, I loved her, I would watch it every day and that's what I wanted to be. Was it culturally appropriation that I did that? I don't really think so. Yeah, maybe at the time I didn't really think that what Disney was telling me was anything less than a story. For all I knew Pocahontas was a fictional princess and fell in love with fictional John Smith. Obviously as I grew older I learned more about who these characters where, and to some extent what Indian culture really entailed. Now even to this day Pocahontas is one of my all time favorite Disney princesses, that fondness grew to an interest in actually trying to understand what the real history of Pocahontas was, and ultimately a greater understanding of American Indian history and culture as a whole.
Now I'm not saying every child who grew up watching Pocahontas learned everything about her, but I do feel a child that obsessed with Pocahontas enough to dress like her during Halloween might latter also be at least interested enough to listen with a more intuitive ear every time they learn something new about this character or this character's culture. I think that it can be part of the child's learning in these different cultures by dressing up like these characters, and hopefully obsessing enough about them that they might look into the Polynesian culture, learning who Maui really is, why Disney even bothered to even make a story like this.
I don't see anything wrong with this kind of natural growing to understanding and while yes I do in fact have problems with this particular execution of a costume, I do not support banning costumes because "children are pretending to be a different race." If that's the case take all the Disney characters down except for the Lion King costumes, the Nemo Costumes, the Stormtroopers, and maybe you can get away with the Toy Story Characters because everything else is a race of people and you don't want to offend.
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Actually lets be safe take the animal costumes away too because god forbid we're speciesist and the Toy Story characters because I looked into it and they look white to me. So what's left on the Disney website ... Stormtroopers, well at least we can get away with that because the mask gets rid of identity.
Happy Halloween!!!
They could do a better job with the costume. It could come with the leaf skirt, a wig and temporary tattoos.
My main issue with costume is with costume having the same skin tone as the character. It's just weird looking if the child's skin tone doesn't match and just reminds everyone about [insert color here] face.
A good example of costume done right would be lilo and stitch stuff.
Just look: https://www.google.com/search?q=lilo%20and%20stitch%20costume&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj049zSoKnPAhVBKyYKHYNQCYsQ_AUICCgB&biw=1360&bih=662
We have girls and women of varying skin tones wearing the same costume with no problem.
I agree I found the same problem with the costume as it's very jarring.
Not to make excuses for Disney because they really should know better, but I will try anyways. I feel that the difference between the Lilo & Stitch costumes and the Maui one is that the tattoos could be seen as a big hurtle to overcome. While yes you could just include tattoos that's a lot of tattoos and a lot of effort to put into a costume on the consumers end, and honestly I don't think a majority of people would want put in that amount of time into a costume.
Instead what they should have done was make the material around the "Tattoos" shear and done away with the faux muscles altogether. Granted I don't know how well that would have worked out either because the argument in the article was that "It was wrong to sell a costume that allowed children to pretend to be another race," so there's not a lot to do to get around that argument as a person is a race and dressing up as a specific person/character makes you dress up as another race. So ... good luck with that?
To be fair, it's kinda hard when most of the costume is bare skin.
Well this is both totally objective and aware of what the problem is. Totes McGotes.
I know some people were pissed about one costume's brownface... so that obvs is wrong. IDK how I feel about other outfits from the film.
Because of the options you are putting here, it seems like you don't understand why it's wrong. It's wrong because they are selling a different culture as a 'costume' and profitting off of it.
How is this different than selling a Barbie costume?
Would a barbie costume look much different than how American people generally dress? Or no?
Because Barbie's Malibu Dream house was never stolen from her and turned into a tourist/military hotspot for another race to visit and gawk at her primitive culture.
Yes, if you are black or hispanic. Culturally they do not dress like Barbie.
Barbie represents a particular culture. Is it insensitive for a non-white person to dress up as Barbie?
That may have been true a few decades ago, but great strides and efforts have been made to educate people, INCLUDING THIS MOVIE!!!
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