Racism In Disney Movies/Aladdin

I couldn't see any difference in colour between the characters, and goodies are usually pretty/handsome/cuddly while the baddies are ugly.

The Disney films started with remakes of old fairy tales, which were European, hence the Caucasian features...then it moved onto 'historically' based (Pocahontis, Mulan, Anastasia, Hercules) - but a lot are based in the 'Old world' or a long time ago, it was part of the charm.

The recent film, with an African-American had a much more modern setting (but had a basis in a classic fairy tale). A fully African, or Caribbean princess might follow. It wouldn't be that hard to adapt the race/nationality in a lot of the old fairy tales, but I suppose that they never really thought about it then.

"except" for african american? you do realize that there are more than 4 races in this world. lol

Trouble makers will find racism everywhere they look, if they look to find racism.

Forget the possible racism in Disney films, what about the blatent paedophillia in Herbie Fully Loaded?
You have Herbie a 42 year old VW Beetle and he has the hots for a new shaped Beetle which is 7 years old at oldest!

Good catch...I forgot about that..and that scene where Herbie gets a rim job from the Beetle behind the 7-11? It doesn't seem so hot anymore.

I think the bigger problem is with the villains ALWAYS being darker than the others.
It makes stereotypes into little impressionable minds.

I don't think that's quite right.

Snow White - White Evil Queen - just as white
Sleeping Beauty - White Maleficent - greenish/whitish?
Cinderella - White Evil Stepmother - White
Belle - White Gaston - White, maybe a little darker than the others in town(note he's also supposed to be good looking)
Ariel - White Ursula - Purple
Aladdin - tan Jafar - tan, and possibly lighter
Mulan - Asian Hun villians - about the same, but they're clearly uglier and all have yellow eyes for some reason
Pocahontas - Native American villian (I can't remember his name) Whiter than any of the other Brits
Tiana - Black Villain - tan?

I only did the princess movies, but it seems to me their skin color runs the spectrum. There's even skin tones you can't find in the natural world there.

Or to break it down even more (because, why not?)

Snow White - good guy and bad guy the same color
Sleeping Beauty - hard to judge because villain has a weird color
Cinderella - good guy and bad guy the same color
Beauty and the Beast - villain maybe slightly darker, but again he's supposed to be handsome
The Little Mermaid - hard to judge because the villain has a weird color
Aladdin - villain is lighter
Mulan - Same? the problem here is it's an entire ethnic group, and they're given weird features
Pocahontas - villain is lighter
Princess and the Frog - villain is lighter

There's no racism in Disney, there is only the truth of observation.

I never noticed any racism in Disney movies but there is a subliminal penis in The Little Mermaid.

Try real villains. The one's that turn out to be OK joes later in the stories don't really count.

.....evil villains are supposed to look evil.