Impacts of Disney movies on society

Impacts of Disney movies on society
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Introduction
This research paper analyses the effects of Disney movie of the society today. It starts by analyzing the general overview of Disney movies, has it evolved over the tears and their impacts on the children and the modern society today. The racial and negative ethnicity propagated by Disney movies into the minds of kids has been discussed. The review of previous studies on Disney films have been in the second section of this research which gives the researcher a clear understanding of Disney cultures and which formed the basis this paper will adopted.
The paper then analyses the impact of Disney culture on marriage, divorce and family as experienced in the family today. A combination of literatures and the current family and marriage experiences are used to deduce the role and contribution of Disney movies to scenarios the present families are exhibiting. The paper finally gives the conclusions and recommendation which are useful to all stakeholders in this research.
overview of Disney movies
Disney Corporation has been a darling to many kids since 1930s. The corporation is engaged in production of Disney movies for children which have been brainwashing and captivating children for over seven decades now, exciting them with beautiful love stories like Cinderella, the little mermaid, snow white, and seven Dwarfs among other Disney thrilling tales. All theses have indeed fascinated generations of little girls by giving them dreams of growing up beautiful and find their prince and live a happy life, (Hurley, 2005).
These ideas have been held by many people into their adulthood, a time when the reality of life sets in and the lessons of Disney films turns sour. Accordingly, not a single person has been flawless as characters depicted in Disney films. However, the effects of Disney movies on children and impacts on their later life after childhood are equally enormous. In real life, so many young girls have grown up desperately searching for their non existent charming princes only to be disappointed at the end, (Sirk, 2009).
These movies have been criticized for allegedly propagating racism and reinforcing the idea of white privilege, an example being the lady and the tramp for its negative stereotyping of Asians, and Dombo which negatively stereotypes black race. Older Disney movies have gender stereotypes as they portray women in two main perspectives, the happy kind and the evil women who depend on men for their survival. Demonizing in theses movies is profound which have taught children to demonize bad behaviors at very young age.
3.0 literature review of previous studies on Disney movies
Different studies have been done on Disney films touching on aspects of life, implications of death on children, the gender role portrayed in Disney films, racism and ethnicity in the films and their impacts on the society, roles of mothers and women as portrayed in Disney films among others. This research analyzes the impact of Disney movies on today’s society, focusing on marriage, divorce and the changing characters of families and individuals. Several studies have examined the content of Disney animated movies such as those done by Beres, (1999), Dundes, (2001) and wiersma, (2001). Other studies on cultural, racial and ethnic aspects have also been conducted by the likes of (Gooding-Williams, 1995; Martin-Rodriguez, 2000; Palmer, 2000).
According to Sirk, (2009), Disney movies have misled many young girls with the ideas of searching for non existing charming prince and living a happy life in future. This has not been the case in real life situation and has negatively impacted on their adult life. This movies has therefore contributed to family breakdown because young women are not able to obtain what they expected leading to conflicts and eventual divorce and separation in their families. Sirk attributes increased single parenthood to Disney culture and ideologies, which planted unachievable fiction into the minds of young people.
Another interesting view by Mielk (n.d) suggests that Disney movies have shielded children from reality, which according to him is cruel and unfair and has made kids more vulnerable to the harsh reality. They have made kids to foolishly believe that world is always fair, and they are not prepared for future life challenges that come to haunt them in their adult life. Another fascinating study by Taylor & Francis found that gender, racial and cultural stereotypes have persisted in most Disney movies, with just a few examples of positive portrayals, which are only found in later and recent films. Accordingly, marginalized groups of the society have been portrayed negatively in most of Disney movies.

Effects of Disney movies on today’s society
According to Disney movies, the ideas of love at first sight as impacted into the minds of children have resulted into promiscuity and prostitution among young kids leading to unnecessary diseases and pregnancies. The idea of perfect marriage as depicted in the movies have misled many peoples and have great contributed to the increased cases of divorce and separation among many marriages today. This has been coupled by the notion that children are immediate necessity in any marriage.
The ideas presented in these movies are not realistic and many people have found themselves struggling with the reality of life against their expectation leading to depression and related health complications among many people especially the women.
5.0 Impact of Disney culture on family, marriage and divorce
Disney films distorted the reality about marriage. Couples expectations are based on Disney flicks and ideas which are not realized leading confrontations in the life of many people. Many people were therefore never prepared for harsh realities and challenges they end up finding in marriage today. According to poem: sex, marriage and fairytales, (n. d), couples today find themselves in weird position because Disney films distorted their reality of life. Accordingly, marriage and family life was supposed to be happy, but they are like prison to many couples, (Wiersma, 2001).
Role of women in marriage was reduced to child bearing and household jobs in most Disney movies. Men have non domestic works in the seventeen of the movies, and are seen doing domestic chores in just three of the movies, Pinocchio, Jungle and Tarzan. This however is not the case in the society today with many women taking up professional jobs. This has greatly changed family life from that portrayed in Disney movies. This has resulted in sourcing the services of house helps to take the roles presumed to belong to housewives. In other cases, men are required to do domestic works which has caused some fracas and conflicts in some families where men are not ready to assist in domestic chores, claiming they are women tasks mainly because of an idea they learnt and adopted from childhood years...