{"id":328,"date":"2022-04-30T02:48:57","date_gmt":"2022-04-30T09:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycacamshowcase\/?p=328"},"modified":"2025-07-17T22:42:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T05:42:54","slug":"simidavin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycacamshowcase\/2022\/simidavin\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney, WTF!?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>As I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve noticed, it is extremely racist!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Creator:<br \/>\nSimi Di Paula<br \/>\nDavin Kim \uae40\ub2e4\ube48<\/p>\n<p>Who would have guessed that Disney would have a history of racist portrayals of Asian characters? (spoilers: me) Follow Simi and Davin&#8217;s eye-catching presentation about the numerous examples of Disney&#8217;s terrible portrayals of Asian characters, from something as explicit as caricatured speech of some unseen Japanese character in the 40s, to something more subtle like who does and doesn&#8217;t have accents in the 90s. They go through the psychology of why representation is important, and how representation (and the lack thereof) affects people&#8217;s health. In watching their presentation, I invite you to think &#8211; are things better now? If so, in what ways are they better? And if not, what needs to change?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/api.cap2.ovp.kaltura.com\/p\/161\/sp\/16100\/embedIframeJs\/uiconf_id\/23450235\/partner_id\/161?iframeembed=true&#038;playerId=kplayer&#038;entry_id=0_ugmssgq0&#038;flashvars[streamerType]=auto\" width=\"750\" height=\"450\" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozAllowFullScreen allow=\"autoplay *; fullscreen *; encrypted-media *\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve noticed, it is extremely racist! Creator: Simi Di Paula Davin Kim \uae40\ub2e4\ube48 Who would have guessed that Disney would have a history of racist portrayals of Asian characters? (spoilers: me) Follow Simi and Davin&#8217;s eye-catching presentation about the numerous examples of Disney&#8217;s terrible portrayals of Asian characters, from something as explicit &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycacamshowcase\/2022\/simidavin\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Disney, WTF!?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59280,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,1,60],"tags":[81,67,14],"class_list":["post-328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2022multi","category-acam330","category-multi","tag-disney","tag-media-representation","tag-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycacamshowcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycacamshowcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycacamshowcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycacamshowcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59280"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycacamshowcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycacamshowcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":634,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycacamshowcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions\/634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycacamshowcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycacamshowcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycacamshowcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}