Talk:Hatsune Miku/@comment-4238265-20130920014648/@comment-53539-20130920165419

I still stand by that this Disney is nothing compared to Warner's Mad mod;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ1sPwcQ7n4

In contrast there is a episode of South Park I enjoy because of its outrageous portrayal of British people. Its a episode on terrorism... It shows a fleet of British ships out at sea the portray is several centuries out of context... And the episode also goes onto talk about America's own habbit of making many enemies and fewer friends, digging at the typical patriotic image of America as being this almighty giant by pointing out some of its flaws...

In other words, its balanced between poking fun at others and then poking fun at itself, while taking a dig at how paranoid things were after the 9/11 stuff and how some folks were determined to make enemies of just about anyone because of paranoia. Typically South Park pokes fun at everyone in the world so its not uncommon for them to do that, but I enjoyed the south because it often drew up a lot of irony.

When you deal with stereotyping in kids shows, its normally because your trying to keep things simple so they can grasp the concepts and understand easier. And honestly, I'm seen worst in Japanese animation over the years to be fair... But again this is for story telling purposes.

I'm more concerned that Disney is showing it to kids... As Kids shouldn't be shown too much cultural stereotyping. I'm not saying they shouldn't reference other cultures, kids have a DEEP desire to learn and other cultures is one of the biggest things to learn. But you risk breeding intolerance... But then again, Disney's American shows are just that... American shows.

I'd also argue how much general knowledge a kid would have on whom Miku is more then anything. The general American audience isn't even likely to realize its Miku referenced here, in fact the older generations tend to think Japanese animation = porn... Because thats the typical thing that came out of America first because everything else came out and there is literally a strong crowd about 50 years old in some countries who don't know Japanese animation isn't all pornographic... Yeah, I had to go through explaining this when I was a teenager to my father who was in his mid-50's... =_=

So while I do see the problems here, I think there are tons of other issues I could draw up other then "Japan = weird" stereotype Disney and other companies love to dig at from time to time. Some more disturbing and a bigger issue... :-/