Thankfully a lot of viewers concerned about showing racism videos to kids without context. After the shooting, we'd had conversations and explained to them enough about racism in the videos. We'll try harder to include enough details when we make videos.
Perhaps it's more difficult to recognize racism in these cartoons if you've grown up in a country without much ethnic diversity? I'm just curious about how that could change someone's ability to recognize such things. If you're not accustomed to seeing certain things in your media, then it seems logical that you might not pick up on it as quickly as someone whose accustomed to it
Also most of these racial stereotypes are from North America and they probably don't know about all the racial stereotypes about Indigenous and Black people in North America.
@@supercar5302 I don’t think that really is a excuse, I do understand how they would be blinded by racism because Korea lacks diversity but Korea has taken western stereotypes and racism and made it their own over the many years. I mean it’s basically the norm for groups in k-pop to have at least done one or two things that were anti black but I understand how they wouldn’t know things that are offensive towards indigenous ppl. I’ve also seen Korean shows using blackfacing with red lips and black hairstyles as punishments you know. That barely scratches the surface..
@@namjinseokeats they don't need any background, it was the perfect example to show that they are not influenced by the current concept of racism you were taught.
@@Gure_Shimo they still look confused when interpreting some of the scenes and tryna figure out whats wrong. Giving info on ,Black Face and why the Native American scene was racist, would've helped.
i think you need a western cultural context to understand the thick lips and hair and blackface is based off Western stereotypes. the lazy town one is really obvious though because it's so literal.
I kinda love that both the adults and kids didn’t really get it. This is what real non-racism looks like. Where you don’t even notice it and just enjoy the cartoon for what it is
@@aposslex Its not non racism, the adults didn't realize it was racist because the stereotypes are so ingrained in them that they thought it was normal. They recognized what race the characters were but didn't see the problem with it as they watched and enjoyed.
@@tooka81 I don't think it's the stereotypes being engrained, it's just that the stereotypes and history are different. They didn't really mention blackface because they didn't know the history behind minstrel shows and that's just one example.
this could have been done a lot better. producers shouldnt be exposing kids and random people to racist stereotypes and just leaving it to their interpretation. the kids just left normalized a lil more to american racism and the adults are left piecing things vaguely together and looked uncomfortable and confused.
The kids just left with a fun experience, they didn't even know if there was racism, they just saw drawings singing, nothing was normalized. You are thinking that way because that's what you've been taught, they don't have that mindset.
@@Gure_Shimo no. You don't understand what they're saying. If those videos are okay then I guess you think it's fine to keep showing them to young, impressionable children. The children left with the disgusting unnattractive view of black people that the show presented thinking there was nothing wrong with it. It's so weird to show them racist shows then not explain anything wrong with it
I wished yalll would keep the kids there to inform them that the cartoons were racist and also gave more clarification on why the scenes were racist (explaining BlackFace, explaining the Native American scene, etc). (Edit: Next time yall do videos abt topics like racism, homophobia, and stuff, PLEASE GIVE CONTEXT AND BACKGROUND. Dont just have them interpret it themselves educate them pls)
@@jazzingirl there is parental permission to show racist cartoons but not explain it..? That makes no sense the kids shouldn't have been added if all they were going to be shown was racist cartoons and think they were okay
@@aoa7520 black kids gets exposed to racism everyday. Matter of fucking facts poc kids gets exposed to racism everyday and dont assume just bc u dont see it dont mean it ain’t happening. I was a kid too when i was exposed to racism. You guys keep making these exceptions as if it’s a bad thing to teach them young so that they dont grow up having an ignorant racist youth life bc this right here taught them earlier so they are a bit aware of it. Fearing of learning something bc they are kids makes u apart of the problem as to why most kids will grow up nd become ignorant towards racism bc nobody taught them at a younger age bout it
@@shugo1047 i don’t think that’s a fair argument, considering black kids are already exposed to the realities of racism in our world today for just simply living. you’re never too young to know about these issues, especially since my first experience with racism was when i was 4 and i remember that..
@@showcrime7332 And you can put early in their minds that they are forever going to be perpetual victims and make them think everything is about race. It's almost as if it's been tried and failing hard, oh wait, THE MILLENNIAL GENERATION! While I'm a believer in growing tough skin through dealing with adversity, we've already seen that when it comes to racism, especially when you know DEALING WiTH KIDS THE VERY RACISM YOU WANT TO TEACH THEM ISN'T EVEN A FREAKING CONCERN OF THEIRS NOR SHOULD IT BE, how about you just don't?
Be nice to include in the adult section at the end to explain the history of blackface minstrelsy and yellow peril, and maybe how different companies are treat their histories: such as Warner Bros putting disclaimers at the beginning to explain how it was a product of the time and strive to avoid making similar mistakes, versus disney who just try to ignore it, burry it, and act like it never happened. Interesting format though, smartly moving the kids out for the discussion part.
@@Zellkid The criticism is needed if this channel wants to profit off of showing racist content. The least they can do is handle it correctly and take feedback.
yeah they didnt really explain much. this is just a reaction no discussion like they usually do. if anything this is just spreading systematic racism cause the kids think its fine but whatever i guess at least the adults understood.
I'm not sure if there's a disclaimer when the movies are aired on TV (cause Disney rarely ever does)... but i'm almost certain Disney+ has a 'content advisory' warning explaining how said movie has negative depictions of people/culture.
@@IronFreee true, but racial political comics of that era contributed to the racist characature of asian peoples with: slit eyes, buck teeth, and broken English that made its way to yellow face comedies or villians as late as the 1980s.
A more thorough explanation of WHY these cartoons are racist would have made this alot better and keeping the kids in for the explanation would prevent them from normalizing this as "American Cartoons". Also as your reactors are Korean it would be much better to include more examples of "yellow-peril" when discussing racism so that they have a reference point for how wildly different racist stereotypes can be from actual cultures they're meant to represent.
as a native american im also really bothered that theres no mention of how we're portrayed... please dont treat stuff like this carelessly these cartoons came out when our parents or grandparents were kids and its still effecting our reality today and not solely in the past.
Im most bothered by the Native American portrayal and I remember that cartoon- I knew it was bad as a kid Too. My school called out the BS in the manipulation of the history books back then. It’s so lame that so many Americans want to go back to lying to their kids about history and human reality
How would they know? You are really bother that a group of people who have no connection with this landmass history, couldn't catch a racist caricature that they really wouldn't have had a way of knowing it was a racist caricature unless they had an understanding of this countries history beforehand? You do realize the whole world doesn't revolve around us right? That every other nation and it's people don't study our history and existence religiously.
@@holyknight70 actually they do study our history especially in college- just like we study the history of Germany, the Soviet Union, China, Egypt, Vietnam and Korea to name a few. Maybe you didn’t but most have
The girl def had an idea abt it for blk ppl but this is exactly why the cast should have explained Blackface and the mocking of native Americans, and the stereotypes
Its south korea... they brush everything off thats why even their rapist get away with it most of the time and even only get really short term sentences.
next time, if you guys do something like that again, keep the children for discussion! so that they can understand the racist issues in those cartoons and not let them ignore them
Right they asked if children should grow up with this stuff and the reactors said no bc it gives them this mindset their whole life so why not explain to them..
@@namjinseokeats exactly! why just let them go away when there is bad stuff behind it? children should know about things like this regardless of being a cartoon
@@luluquiitabecause in their eyes, they just watched a fun animation and that's it. In fact, there is no racism in a drawing if you don't have that mindset. They didn't follow any message, just cartoons singing.
No they don't, those children don't need to understand/know the racism in a cartoon of another country that has no effect on them what so ever. Hell, the knowledge doesn't even effect the adults all that much. The only one it effects is U.S. citizens and even then instead of simply explaining these are products of their time where mindsets were more racially divided, people prefer to try and over correct.
Seeing these cartoons sparked an anger inside of me especially when you think about when the time period that they actually aired. I’m glad society is beginning to make drastic changes because honestly stereotypes are more harmful than people realize.
For the "lazy town" cartoon the woman that came from the boat wasn't white, she was actually a light skinned black girl. You can tell by her rhythm, voice, and appearance. (as well as I've seen this cartoon a long time ago. Coming from an American.) It was showing that the lighter you are the more beautiful you were. Hence, the dark skinned ones were fat, missing teeth, unkempt hair, and shaggy looking clothes. Also, the term "Uncle Tom" in the mickey mouse cartoon is a derogatory statement toward black people. Mickey and clarabelle did black face. The "dress"/potato sack that mickey wore was a reference to slaves having to use sacks as clothing (I believe a lot of Farm families had to use what they had). The centaurs one, had a literal black slave girl working for the "pretty" white ones. As well as, they were half horse while the black girl was half donkey. What's another name for a donkey? That's right, an ass. So really all of these older cartoons weren't the best to show those kids, without any context. I hope the off screen explanations went well and they grasped the severity of this topic.
Not gonna lie, even as an american, when i was a kid and later saw that a cartoon i used to watch was bad, i felt like i was decieved. Thank god, I wasn’t influenced heavily by such cartoons. They put so much in kids shows, it’s horrifying.
As a Korean who watched Tom and Jerry's racist scenes when I was a kid, I can explain why these people don't feel racial discrimination. - Fantasia They are unfamiliar with the old stereotype of "Black people are white people's servants." To them, that servant is just a "funny-looking background character," not a "black servant." - Peter Pan Unfortunately, many Koreans still have a strong image of "Indian = native Americans" due to various media received from the United States in the past. However, they don't know about the concept of "Indian faces are red." When you ask Koreans about this racism, they'll say, "I don't know what you're talking about, Aren't there faces brown?" - Mickey's Mellerdrammer For them, black people are tall, short-haired, brown-skinned people or just literally "black people" and they just have no idea what that stupid makeup and dance means because they're just idiots with coal on their face. They think it's just another boring American joke that they can't understand. (Yes, For Koreans, American comedy are often considered as "boring jokes that we can't understand." That's why Ken Jung isn't popular in Korea.) - Aristocats For Koreans, Chinese are not "Asian people like us." There are many Chinese stereotype characters such as this video in Korea. That's why they can't think of anything other than "Oh, he's Chinese." Yes, It's racism. - Scrub Me Mama with a Boogie Beat As I mentioned earlier, black people are just literally "black people" to Koreans. They don't even know there are rumors like "black people are lazy" or "black people like watermelon." Therefore, from their point of view, this animation is all about "a beautiful woman comes to a lazy village and everyone sings." I am not saying that there is no racism in Korea, but racist stereotypes in the U.S. and racist stereotypes in Korea are kinda different. For example, Black racism we have here is "They are all good at rapping, basketball, and they have a huge dick, oh and in Africa they believe in voodoo so they eat people..." thing, not "They love watermelon and chiken." If you ask Koreans about this, they will answer something stupid like this: "You guys love watermelon and chicken? We also love watermelon and chicken!"
it’s true, as a korean person who was raised in the us, there’s no knowledge of blackface, offensive native american stereotypes, etc. because so much of that is directly from us history. like native american culture is extremely unique to us/north america and isn’t rly taught anywhere else. same with black culture. unlike the us or other western countries, korea has no history of black people in their country or nearby countries mostly due to the transatlantic slave trade being between different countries in the west, not as much the east. the stereotypes they know about are recent/modern ones, like rapping and basketball. i honestly doubt even the producers have any deep knowledge of the stereotypes other than that they are racist lol. it’s probably difficult to find thorough or well-translated information on western racial stereotypes. since korea has become a technologically advanced country around the 90s, there’s catching up to do for sure
I've seen Korean comedians and Korean famous people do blackface and I've even seen them eat watermelon while in blackface. I would say that not everyone understands it but there are plenty of Korean people that do. I saw a kpop idol refer to himself a kunta Kente after lipstick was thickly applied to his lips is a exaggerated manner. And thought it was hilarious .........
when i was a kid my fav cartoon was russian "the wild swans" from 1962 and i only realised like months ago the whole plot is about black face. i never noticed that the protagonist changed her appearance and thats WHY she was treated badly and then magically turned "beautiful" back. not only i didnt get the plot i didnt even notice the change, so i suppose kids are very pure.
Probably was just difficult to spot the racism in these clips because they were based on American stereotypes and discrimination. Racism exists in Korea, just not in the same way it does in the US. It would be interesting to see them have a discussion about the things in those cartoons and discuss why it didn’t speak to them the way it would to an American.
They should have broke down each carton and what it means so they understood the cartoons and also the kids should have been there too. Besides that i really enjoyed this video 😗❤️
i don't think its good for the kids to not notice, bcos then u basically accept that as the norm, its literally how we form our world views and readily just accept these stereotypes as "normal", and that is also why the adults didn't realize it
@@lydiaaa5628 But it's because of American stereotypes the media portrays us that way to the world. People all over the world portray us a violence, ignorant, unintelligent, people. If someone in another country who don't have a melting pot of races and cultures see this they would believe we all act the way these same American stereotypes portrayed us as.
When left unchecked and corrected these stereotypes will remain permeated in korean media with things such as brown face, american indian wear by kpop groups and imitating angry black american behaviors. Korea PLEASE strive everyday to be better towards international audiences with empathy and integrity and clean out this filth.
This was actually a great way to show how insidious and destructive racism is. When presented as fun, normal and happy it worms it's way into a child's conciousness and teaches subtle lessons about what is normal, good, and beautiful and who is bad, lazy, stupid and ugly. There needed to be a much more informative conversation with both the children and adults.
Well blame the person who created don’t blame the people in the video lol. Idk why people are coming at the people in the video they should coming at the person who was in charge of this reaction and the video
Kids just don't care about race even kids who race is being portrayed in a stereotypical racist fashion. It's only as adults or when adults make an issue of it do kids become aware. I remember As a kid my brothers and my favorite cartoon was the Bugs Bunny: All This and Rabbit Stew episode. Was it racist? Yep, but we could care less, it was funny and that's all that mattered. Then again we also were raised on In Living Color where everybody was fair game.
How would the Koreans see a problem when they did this too and are still doing it😂 They still do blackface and their popular characters were inspired by these cartoons. Like plss😂
Your second sentence in that is the key. It is popular there because it was popular in our own country first. All of the horrible stereotypes about Black people around the world were started by our own country's media. Our country put out those cartoons and movies and songs about us and told the world how to see us. I'm not saying other countries should not be held accountable when or once they know it's wrong but I think we should really be upset about the source. Especially when we've all been so indoctrinated here we now put it out ourselves and glorify it.
@@femmefatale6550 No, see what you're doing is obsolving them of what they're doing. For the most part, Koreans know when they're dealing with racist shit like this when it comes to them. The racist asian shit they saw here wasn't specifically towards their people, so they either didn't care or didn't think catch and thought it wasn't a problem. There was a point where they use to do this racist blackface play at some event every year but stop once they found out some black people were going to attend. Everytime someone trys to hold East Asian people accountable for their own actions ppl like you come in and make excuses. I'm holding them accountable, PERIOD. TODAY in 2022 and beyond, whoever is still continuing this racist shit is the problem.
@@femmefatale6550 Also, Koreans know that blackface is a problem. A famous black man in Korea tried to give awareness on how blackface is racist and they tried to get him kicked out of the country. He was forced to apologize. So now what?
@@hungrychat7304 There are many Koreans that do understand that it's wrong. But changing what's on television or in forms of media there such as blackface or cultural appropriation of hairstyles is going to take more than "one Black man" in Korea. Especially in a place that has very few Blk people in comparison to the native population. Do you know how long it took for a Black woman to be cast as anything other than a junkie, a maid, a slave, or a prostitute in a major motion picture in America? Almost 40 yrs. The legacy our own country has put out in the world is toxic. We have not even completely overcome it here. The younger Korean people are learning and quickly changing. Established media and older people will take longer, of course. I cut them some slack. They're new to this in the span of time. Our own country, more than a century. No excuse.
honestly this is the difference between America and other countries. I grew up watching these cartoons as a kid and never thought about it much but i realized there was a difference. As i got older i learned that these cartoons were racist. However the kids and even the adults had no idea it was racist until the director said something about it. We grew up being and learning about racism and they just grew up.
Minji made a good point. This is a clear way of how racism can become, and probably did become, subconscious to some people. This type of media was the representation of black, Asian, and Native American people in America. Growing up children might I’ve thought this was funny and cute and not realize that it is an incorrect and disrespectful portrayal of people. They might grow up believing these false and harmful stereotypes.
Wish you guys said why they were racist, especially native Americans because a lot of people outside of America are not entirely educated on the subject I'm pretty sure
Austin is sexy. I’m here for him Regarding the video, it’s difficult to not recognise the wrongness of something that doesn’t effect you. Without context, I still would’ve been offended if I had been shown these videos without being told why I’m watching them. But that’s because I’m black and I’ve been exposed to racism my whole life, so I’m conditioned to see it everywhere
I didn't see anywhere where it was explained to them that these cartoons were from the 1930s 1940s and 50s possibly 60s things changed in the 70s and onward pretty much that is not completely until maybe the 90s on word.
I think the video shows a lot of differences in age groups, as well as cultural differences. kids don't have a racist bone in their body, because they are unknown to many things, when they see pictures and shapes, everything is based on emotion. its like the word racism doesn't exist because its in a form of pictures and characters, shapes, etc. until they grow up, and realize how it may affect them negatively. for adults, I think its more of a cultural stand point. adults in other countries, if they watch international news, will get the picture alot faster than those who don't because if you live in a country predominantly just one color, if another color suddenly comes along, you have this question in your head like "wait who this person, or why they look like that". many people are curious like that. same thing in America, if we meet a new person that we never seen, or features we never seen, we also are curious. I try to keep an open mind so that if there is any confusion or misinterpretation, we can solve the issue instead of jumping to conclusions. it is only AFTER it is explained, and people are still ignorant, then that becomes racism.
Maybe it's done off-camera, or doesn't make it into the final video edit, but this channel has a terrible habit of presenting something and then not giving any explanation to the people reacting. No context. No explanation of why any of the clips were racist. No history of the portrayal of these minorities in media. Just... "these were all about racism". That's not only a poor explanation, it's an inaccurate one. They weren't "about racism", they were racist. From the discussion at the end the people reacting still had a very poor grasp of the clips they watched, and no attempt was made to correct it. Minji kinda seemed to get it, but still seemed to have a pretty poor grasp of why. You guys can be better.
Those children aren't going to see the racism in those cartoons because 1. They are children and unless they are raised to view things through the lens of race, they won't see it. 2. They aren't American, every racial stereotype is one cultivated through western eyes. The racist caricature of blacks, Mesoamericans, and Chinese were all would require one to have a level of understanding of American history to point it out. It would be like if south Koreans made a racist caricature of the Chinese or North Koreans, I could see it and wouldn't know it because I lack that cultural context or connection to understand it.
No, you raise kids to be smart and notice differences--in treatment, environment, what is considered pretty vs ugly, acceptable vs not acceptable. You teach children to be observant. If you don't you are not educating your children. If they ask you why the differences are there then you have to explain that it IS based on race and that is what you are uncomfortable with. You don't want children to look at things thru the lens of race but that literally was the lens. I swear, we have no trouble bursting their bubble about Santa Claus, but we'll shield and blind them from racism, something prevalent and harmful to all of us, all day every day. So that it continues to be perpetuated. Make it make sense. Incidentally, children are smarter than you think and they quickly learn to resent you when you know there's a problem, you don't do anything to fix it and instead try to cover up the truth.
this reminded me as of my childhood watching cartoons/anime and they'd always have that one racist joke (usually about black people) and i had to pretend it didn't happen 😁 ah,,,
Oh my god I loved aristocats as a kid! I had no idea that scene was even racist nor did I really remember it. Just how subtly things like that were in children's media is concerning.. & I'm glad it didn't affect me negatively
This video didn't tackle the issue like it should have. I don't expect South Koreans to understand the relationship of racism, minorities, and the States like we do, but I think you could have been more informative. At least, you could have researched better or asked people who are more familiar with the American Dilemma for a thorough picture. There is also no age too young to begin understanding what racism means and looks like. I know because I started seeing it when I was a toddler. I was on the receiving end of it when I first started school. This was a learning opportunity for them that you missed.
i agree with this 100%! i wonder if it’s more difficult finding actually informative/thorough info on racist us stereotypes in korea tho. maybe they can translate but lord knows google translate is the worst lol
Wish you had american of same age discuss this since Koreans have there own prejudices against other colors or races. Would have been a great teaching tool for both cultures. Everyone looks lost!
I like that they touched on a very important note, growing up watching this cartoons then as an adult you don’t even realize that what you learned from those cartoons was racism. Those cartoons pushed stereotypes that brainwashed kids into thinking that’s how those demographics are. They raised ignorant questions like if a black person gets in a pool or bath all the dark color might come off. It’s very hurtful to those groups they stereotyped. All native Americans are violent even against children and push drugs, there are grown adults these days that still think that because of Peter Pan. Disney pushed a lot of horrible propaganda in the early days like this and it has truly shaped a generation.
right! as a chinese person growing up in southeast asia, i remembered watching that mickey mouse explosion episode and thought it was funny that his faced turned black but i didnt know that it was intentional and it was called blackface. kids should be educated on racism is so they can be aware of whats offensive and remove bad stereotypes of POC
Unless you were brought up during the times, that there actually was racism, like between the 1930's to the early 1980's , you wouldn't understand it. I grew up in the 1960's to the 1970's and seen it first hand. Just before and after the Civil Rights Act was passed in the USA , 1968.
There's still racism now in the USA and other mixed race countries. Kids/adults that were born after the 80's and live in these countries get it easily. These ppl shown here grew up in a country where 99% of the ppl around them look similar to themselves. They won't understand it bc of WHERE they grew up, not WHEN. Racism did not end in the 80's.
It shocks me how much to my don’t realize how racist the cartoons were but I do realize that in other countries racism wasn’t either taught to them or they just don’t know much. It kinda hurts knowing other countries don’t know about your suffering and ancestors suffering but some or a lot of us know about other countries suffering and racism they have received
@@andreysokolov8974 I’m clearly speaking to a racist but I never said that. Don’t add words that aren’t there. I do know that words can be taken any type of way and because of this I won’t get made because a racist will say ignorant things like this because that all they see are ignorance, Blind as a bat. Please have a nice day and remember to always educate yourself if not you’ll always be lead by ignorance. 🙂😘 be safe to the world is full of hate and I’m sure you are part of it.
When I was young, I had a VHS with world war two propaganda and incredibly racist warner bros cartoons, and I also loved Peter Pan and Aristocats. It's eye-opening to think back on seeing such heightened caricatures of folk and having no clue what it really was. Yes I was an innocent child and didn't know, but the fact that I was innocent and ignorant made it dangerous to view because my frame of reference for entire communities was based on these "red men" and "savage tribes". That is why it is important to show children that is wrong. The two cartoons I remember the most vividly are "Scrap Happy Daffy" and "Jungle Jitters". The second one is part of the Censored Eleven list, which was a group of cartoons pulled from broadcasting in the 60s for their ethnic stereotypes. As a child, obviously I had no idea about this. I didn't learn about the severity of the racist caricatures until I was in my late teens-early 20s. The sooner these images are taught for what they are in a child's mind, the better they will understand the world. I hope the channel educates the children about what they have just seen, because it does take years of unlearning that frame of reference. Don't worry about how to approach it, children can handle difficult topics.
I understand why you didn't keep the kids there for the explanation but I hope someone explained to them after the shoot what the videos were about - like how you did with Austin and Minji but on a child's level :)
they commented that they had a convo abt it with the kids after the shoot. i think (like you said) they probably had a different level of convo with the kids since it would be very different explaining it to little kids who have never heard of racism vs. adults that know what it is:)
The Centaur in the first clip wasn't really a racist taunting against Black people, in Western Ancient Symbology there were Always Black and White Centaurs. It was the servant part and full lips at the time . Since Julia Robert's in 1990, " Pretty Woman". Full lips like Black Westerners has been desirable to White Westerners. Just like Tanning to make One's skin Darker decades before by Westerners is always the Opposite of Asian Nations. Speaking again if Westerners. White Westerners who do not have Naturally Curly Hair Perm their hair to make it more Voluptuous and curly, while Black Westerners perm their hair to abolish curls and make it straight. Funny how one wishes. The Crows in Dumbo however, lol.
The children only seeing the gags and musical numbers. Was by design so that kids exposed to this back in the day just see a show, but grow up with that racist seed in their head that can shape their perception of marginalized groups like Natives and black people. I also understand for Koreans seeing this won't get it as these films are mired in American culture and history and thus lack the cultural context of what's wrong with these films. I hope after this video this was a learning experience for them, hopefully the kids can be informed about what wrong with the films and reinforce the idea of racial/ethnic equality to them.
Its south korea... they brush everything off thats why even their rapist get away with it most of the time and even only get really short term sentences.
Sorry guys. I appreciate that you guys want to bring attention to these topics and listen to your audience well. But this did not make the difference hoped for. Hope in the next video more will be explained and addressed on why these are terrible.
Maybe it’s bc how I was raised and that I live in American that it’s hard to believe they didn’t see anything racist about those films lmao. Like Ik when I was a child I wouldn’t of known racist things that were outside my race but it’s also important to teach children about those racist things so they know this is bad or they might become racist without realizing it bc the media loves to spread untruthful things about other races even too this day, it happens in Korea too- there’s so much negative stereotypes towards blk ppl and blackfacing in Korea I just wonder how that affects Korean children watching their favorite idols do these things. I think the children should of heard that those films were racist and how hurtful they could be towards others because other children don’t have that luxury to bypass racism. It could get them seriously hurt or even killed.
This would have been good if the producers gave a thorough explanation on why racism is not good especially they included children on this kind of reaction video. Im half korean and half filipino.. I watched a show that mentioned about students bullying him and tend to call him "filipino" as an insult for having darker skin. And also a certain host from the show said that he really looks like a security guard from the airport in the philippines.
Just adding on to the comments about how this could have been done so much better! I think doing a follow-up video with examples of "yellow peril" and anti-Asian racism would be more relatable and help the kids especially understand why the other racial stereotypes were just as bad. Still images might work even better - Tintin's portrayal of Japanese people, Dr. Seuss political cartoons from WWII, etc. Lots of examples that would also give the non-Asian audience a better understanding of how hurtful it can be.
I watched fantasia a lot growing up without ever knowing until now that the version I saw must have been a rerelease. The racism must have been realised and refuted because the black character/s were removed. I suppose I'm thankful I saw the version without racism. It's sad to see it was so normalised they felt comfortable even making racist cartoons for children. May be one of the reasons my mother was so against us watching much American television. There are a lot of very negative and questionable behaviours and attitudes portrayed even in American kids shows now. I often wonder how a lot of them get approved and why some seemingly very twisted people are able to hold jobs in organisations that create content for children.
I wonder if it's the way that race is perceived or treated in their country as compared to in others, like the US? Not to say that there's not racism in Korea, but their history is very different from that of America.
I swear each clip made me cringe. I mean it just shows how a homogeneous society can sometimes be unaware of some foreign things. At least they learn and try to understand, some people don't and that's really sad to me.
Sociopolitical advantages of Homogeneous societies far exceed any perceived necessity of cross cultural awareness. S. Koreans largely live on the Korean peninsula. United States in an ocean away, the African continent is literally a continent away, there is no immediate threat of Koreans having to express racial solidarity.
I was squirming from the beginning, realising that when I was a young child much would pass me by here. Maybe I would have been ten years or so before the penny dropped. Here in England I remember turning against The Black and White Minstrels Show before the BBC did, and the housekeeper in Tom and Jerry
if youre going to show racist old cartoons (there are a lot, america is extremely racist) maybe it would be good to use the thousands of experts who have studied this to explain the context and actual history... instead of making american racism some vague thing. like mickey going and putting on blackface and what minstrelsy is...
0:56 - Welp, that weird moment when you realise asian people call "Inuyasha" or "Naruto" cartoons 🤯🤯 It'd be weirder if I ever hear a japanese person call it "cartoon" 🤣🤣😂😂
Many in the comment section should come down & chill. Give folks time to put shit together. These are short videos, not 1 hour long ones. Plus the kids don’t need to be made aware of what they don’t see. Just because y’all want them to. Especially if it has no relevance to their everyday lives. What references do they have with racist depiction of Western cartoons??? The rest of the world does not evolve around American history. They’re making an effort and y’all already jumping on their throats as if they owe you something. Sure racism should be discussed, appropriately. I do agree with one of the comments that they should use more yellow peril depictions so they can comprehend the topic better.
I'm glad people are more open about Racism and other things like sexuality. I think everyone could see how wrong cartoons like some of these ones were back then.
not to many people know that Disney have a lot and even movie that have hidden thing that are racist, in my case i don't recommend any cartoons from Disney even the movie
Funny how this test, just showed that there is no racism in cartoons unless you are taught otherwise. And the people in the comment section are trying to impose it. Yes, racism exists, but these kids and even the adults just saw drawings singing, because they haven't been exposed to other countries's excessive drama. No damage was done.
that's what germans say about their 1000 year old fairytales with jewish people as the villians. "Oh, there's nothing wrong with this! It's cute children's entertainment!"
@@queerlibtardhippie9357 remember, the problem is not the contentin the media, but the people that impose it as reality. People can consume any form of old media today, enjoy it, and not look down or discriminate against anyone when they are taught right. If we go by your logic, games, movies and books would've been banned in this age. But studies show that the problem is not the content of the media, but the teachings.
the problem to me is the animators didnt care about offending the minorities with the cartoons. it was a different time but it was wrong then as its wrong now but when i say that then all this sjw talk comes out
Ya'll the racism isn't really recognized because people openly being racist doesn't happen too much in Korea. Like you won't often see somebody being openly racist against somebody in public. You will barely see somebody insulting/assaulting another race in korea. Cause in America you see that kind of stuff a lot. In Korea not so much. But anyways, I really do wish that Asians will become more aware of racism and I hope they become more educated about what they should/shouldnt do. Since a lot of people are normalizing wearing box braids as a non-black person in east-asian countries which sucks. +i really wished OSSC told them what was racist in the cartoon clips.
I find the first part of your comment hard to believe when so many people have posted videos about experiencing racism in Korea whether it was subtle or outwardly displayed. At this point in time, people choose to learn or stay willfully ignorant.
@@jerseygirl6221 Like yes racism happens in Korea but not a lot like in America or something. Like I'm south east Asian but I don't really look Asian and my skin is dark and I've experienced racism in Korea before but it doesn't happen often. Like the years that I've been living in Korea, i have barely seen people being racist. Ofcourde I have seen em be racist but not a lot.
Those cartoons were awful...Disney..oh my goodness! I truly cannot understand how the adults can watch those horribly racist cartoons and repeating the peter pan song. Especially strange to see a cartoon town called lazy town and recognize that the people in the cartoon are black but not connect the dots at the problem with that unless thats what you already think about them. This video is pointless if there is no education as to why these are wrong.
You kinda whiffed this one. These cartoons were being shown in theaters and on TV into the late 50's. They were taken down beginning in the 60's as the Civil Rights movement gained traction in America. I do think you should have shown a "Yellow Peril" cartoon from the 30's and 40's. Though maybe not with the kids. I grew up with segregation and remember White Only drinking fountains, waiting rooms, restaurants, and schools. The Civil Rights demonstration began when I was in my tweens. In the south blacks were required to step aside on the sidewalk for a white person. Asians were treated much the same then. We seem to be trying to repeat history in America lately.
Thankfully a lot of viewers concerned about showing racism videos to kids without context.
After the shooting, we'd had conversations and explained to them enough about racism in the videos.
We'll try harder to include enough details when we make videos.
Thank you
Perhaps it's more difficult to recognize racism in these cartoons if you've grown up in a country without much ethnic diversity? I'm just curious about how that could change someone's ability to recognize such things. If you're not accustomed to seeing certain things in your media, then it seems logical that you might not pick up on it as quickly as someone whose accustomed to it
I think to because I see it in 2 seconds so I thought that maybe this is the reason
Also most of these racial stereotypes are from North America and they probably don't know about all the racial stereotypes about Indigenous and Black people in North America.
If they gave a background or something afterwards they might understand better what is racist about these cartoons.
@@supercar5302 agreed
@@supercar5302 I don’t think that really is a excuse, I do understand how they would be blinded by racism because Korea lacks diversity but Korea has taken western stereotypes and racism and made it their own over the many years. I mean it’s basically the norm for groups in k-pop to have at least done one or two things that were anti black but I understand how they wouldn’t know things that are offensive towards indigenous ppl.
I’ve also seen Korean shows using blackfacing with red lips and black hairstyles as punishments you know. That barely scratches the surface..
It would be great to break down to them the history of the the racist connotations after hearing what they think lol
Like why they did the things they did and how exactly the stereotypes were used against the minorities
Exactly i hate when they do videos like this were they have the ppl interpret things themselves and not give any background
@@namjinseokeats exactly like that’s not reacting if they dont even know bout it after
@@namjinseokeats they don't need any background, it was the perfect example to show that they are not influenced by the current concept of racism you were taught.
@@Gure_Shimo they still look confused when interpreting some of the scenes and tryna figure out whats wrong. Giving info on ,Black Face and why the Native American scene was racist, would've helped.
It's kind of hilarious that they don't seem to notice it, especially the Aristocats one.
Chinese stereotypes in Korea are different from the us
i think you need a western cultural context to understand the thick lips and hair and blackface is based off Western stereotypes. the lazy town one is really obvious though because it's so literal.
I kinda love that both the adults and kids didn’t really get it. This is what real non-racism looks like. Where you don’t even notice it and just enjoy the cartoon for what it is
@@aposslex Its not non racism, the adults didn't realize it was racist because the stereotypes are so ingrained in them that they thought it was normal. They recognized what race the characters were but didn't see the problem with it as they watched and enjoyed.
@@tooka81 I don't think it's the stereotypes being engrained, it's just that the stereotypes and history are different. They didn't really mention blackface because they didn't know the history behind minstrel shows and that's just one example.
this could have been done a lot better. producers shouldnt be exposing kids and random people to racist stereotypes and just leaving it to their interpretation. the kids just left normalized a lil more to american racism and the adults are left piecing things vaguely together and looked uncomfortable and confused.
Yes! I don’t get why they don’t think issues like racism can’t be taught to kids even at just a basic level.
It goes to show how subtle racism can start when it is placed innocuously in content intended for simple minds (children).
It showed you how subtle it is when the adults didn't even realise it was racist. Minji worked that out.
The kids just left with a fun experience, they didn't even know if there was racism, they just saw drawings singing, nothing was normalized. You are thinking that way because that's what you've been taught, they don't have that mindset.
@@Gure_Shimo no. You don't understand what they're saying. If those videos are okay then I guess you think it's fine to keep showing them to young, impressionable children. The children left with the disgusting unnattractive view of black people that the show presented thinking there was nothing wrong with it. It's so weird to show them racist shows then not explain anything wrong with it
I wished yalll would keep the kids there to inform them that the cartoons were racist and also gave more clarification on why the scenes were racist (explaining BlackFace, explaining the Native American scene, etc). (Edit: Next time yall do videos abt topics like racism, homophobia, and stuff, PLEASE GIVE CONTEXT AND BACKGROUND. Dont just have them interpret it themselves educate them pls)
they would need the parent permission for that
@@jazzingirl there is parental permission to show racist cartoons but not explain it..? That makes no sense the kids shouldn't have been added if all they were going to be shown was racist cartoons and think they were okay
@@namjinseokeats thiss
No, they are kids.
@@aoa7520 black kids gets exposed to racism everyday. Matter of fucking facts poc kids gets exposed to racism everyday and dont assume just bc u dont see it dont mean it ain’t happening. I was a kid too when i was exposed to racism. You guys keep making these exceptions as if it’s a bad thing to teach them young so that they dont grow up having an ignorant racist youth life bc this right here taught them earlier so they are a bit aware of it. Fearing of learning something bc they are kids makes u apart of the problem as to why most kids will grow up nd become ignorant towards racism bc nobody taught them at a younger age bout it
Frankly, it would be more productive and insightful to have the conversation at the end with the children present.
@@shugo1047 i don’t think that’s a fair argument, considering black kids are already exposed to the realities of racism in our world today for just simply living. you’re never too young to know about these issues, especially since my first experience with racism was when i was 4 and i remember that..
@@shannnnn5150 black kids are exposed to it because people toss them into it. I
@@holyknight70 Exactly that’s the point. If some kids have to deal with racism as soon as they can understand words, kids can learn about racism.
@@showcrime7332
And you can put early in their minds that they are forever going to be perpetual victims and make them think everything is about race.
It's almost as if it's been tried and failing hard, oh wait, THE MILLENNIAL GENERATION!
While I'm a believer in growing tough skin through dealing with adversity, we've already seen that when it comes to racism, especially when you know DEALING WiTH KIDS THE VERY RACISM YOU WANT TO TEACH THEM ISN'T EVEN A FREAKING CONCERN OF THEIRS NOR SHOULD IT BE, how about you just don't?
@@holyknight70 How would they be victims of fake racism if they learn about racism??
Be nice to include in the adult section at the end to explain the history of blackface minstrelsy and yellow peril, and maybe how different companies are treat their histories: such as Warner Bros putting disclaimers at the beginning to explain how it was a product of the time and strive to avoid making similar mistakes, versus disney who just try to ignore it, burry it, and act like it never happened. Interesting format though, smartly moving the kids out for the discussion part.
@@Zellkid The criticism is needed if this channel wants to profit off of showing racist content. The least they can do is handle it correctly and take feedback.
yeah they didnt really explain much. this is just a reaction no discussion like they usually do. if anything this is just spreading systematic racism cause the kids think its fine but whatever i guess at least the adults understood.
Yellow peril wasn't a thing when "The Aristocats"...
I'm not sure if there's a disclaimer when the movies are aired on TV (cause Disney rarely ever does)... but i'm almost certain Disney+ has a 'content advisory' warning explaining how said movie has negative depictions of people/culture.
@@IronFreee true, but racial political comics of that era contributed to the racist characature of asian peoples with: slit eyes, buck teeth, and broken English that made its way to yellow face comedies or villians as late as the 1980s.
A more thorough explanation of WHY these cartoons are racist would have made this alot better and keeping the kids in for the explanation would prevent them from normalizing this as "American Cartoons".
Also as your reactors are Korean it would be much better to include more examples of "yellow-peril" when discussing racism so that they have a reference point for how wildly different racist stereotypes can be from actual cultures they're meant to represent.
as a native american im also really bothered that theres no mention of how we're portrayed... please dont treat stuff like this carelessly these cartoons came out when our parents or grandparents were kids and its still effecting our reality today and not solely in the past.
i agree completely, came to the comments to say exactly this. our parents/grandparents dealt with this, it's not a subject to take lightly.
True...Most of our parents/grandparents are racist against asian and african people because of these animations.
Im most bothered by the Native American portrayal and I remember that cartoon- I knew it was bad as a kid Too. My school called out the BS in the manipulation of the history books back then.
It’s so lame that so many Americans want to go back to lying to their kids about history and human reality
How would they know? You are really bother that a group of people who have no connection with this landmass history, couldn't catch a racist caricature that they really wouldn't have had a way of knowing it was a racist caricature unless they had an understanding of this countries history beforehand? You do realize the whole world doesn't revolve around us right? That every other nation and it's people don't study our history and existence religiously.
@@holyknight70 actually they do study our history especially in college- just like we study the history of Germany, the Soviet Union, China, Egypt, Vietnam and Korea to name a few. Maybe you didn’t but most have
i have a feeling they still didnt understand what was racist about it
The girl def had an idea abt it for blk ppl but this is exactly why the cast should have explained Blackface and the mocking of native Americans, and the stereotypes
Crazy is how it may be difficult to pick up stereotypes if it’s sugar coated and if the media in ur country doesn’t discuss it as much
Its south korea... they brush everything off thats why even their rapist get away with it most of the time and even only get really short term sentences.
Because there was nothing "racist" about it lmao. And they're not sensitive little biches like Western Tumblr kids.
next time, if you guys do something like that again, keep the children for discussion! so that they can understand the racist issues in those cartoons and not let them ignore them
Right they asked if children should grow up with this stuff and the reactors said no bc it gives them this mindset their whole life so why not explain to them..
@@namjinseokeats exactly! why just let them go away when there is bad stuff behind it? children should know about things like this regardless of being a cartoon
@@luluquiitabecause in their eyes, they just watched a fun animation and that's it. In fact, there is no racism in a drawing if you don't have that mindset. They didn't follow any message, just cartoons singing.
@@Gure_Shimo there's alot of ignorance in your comments ngl
No they don't, those children don't need to understand/know the racism in a cartoon of another country that has no effect on them what so ever. Hell, the knowledge doesn't even effect the adults all that much. The only one it effects is U.S. citizens and even then instead of simply explaining these are products of their time where mindsets were more racially divided, people prefer to try and over correct.
Seeing these cartoons sparked an anger inside of me especially when you think about when the time period that they actually aired. I’m glad society is beginning to make drastic changes because honestly stereotypes are more harmful than people realize.
For the "lazy town" cartoon the woman that came from the boat wasn't white, she was actually a light skinned black girl. You can tell by her rhythm, voice, and appearance. (as well as I've seen this cartoon a long time ago. Coming from an American.) It was showing that the lighter you are the more beautiful you were. Hence, the dark skinned ones were fat, missing teeth, unkempt hair, and shaggy looking clothes. Also, the term "Uncle Tom" in the mickey mouse cartoon is a derogatory statement toward black people. Mickey and clarabelle did black face. The "dress"/potato sack that mickey wore was a reference to slaves having to use sacks as clothing (I believe a lot of Farm families had to use what they had). The centaurs one, had a literal black slave girl working for the "pretty" white ones. As well as, they were half horse while the black girl was half donkey. What's another name for a donkey? That's right, an ass. So really all of these older cartoons weren't the best to show those kids, without any context. I hope the off screen explanations went well and they grasped the severity of this topic.
I appreciate you guys bringing light to this but I think it would’ve been better if you actually explained why the cartoon is racist
Not gonna lie, even as an american, when i was a kid and later saw that a cartoon i used to watch was bad, i felt like i was decieved. Thank god, I wasn’t influenced heavily by such cartoons. They put so much in kids shows, it’s horrifying.
As a Korean who watched Tom and Jerry's racist scenes when I was a kid, I can explain why these people don't feel racial discrimination.
- Fantasia
They are unfamiliar with the old stereotype of "Black people are white people's servants." To them, that servant is just a "funny-looking background character," not a "black servant."
- Peter Pan
Unfortunately, many Koreans still have a strong image of "Indian = native Americans" due to various media received from the United States in the past. However, they don't know about the concept of "Indian faces are red." When you ask Koreans about this racism, they'll say, "I don't know what you're talking about, Aren't there faces brown?"
- Mickey's Mellerdrammer
For them, black people are tall, short-haired, brown-skinned people or just literally "black people" and they just have no idea what that stupid makeup and dance means because they're just idiots with coal on their face. They think it's just another boring American joke that they can't understand. (Yes, For Koreans, American comedy are often considered as "boring jokes that we can't understand." That's why Ken Jung isn't popular in Korea.)
- Aristocats
For Koreans, Chinese are not "Asian people like us." There are many Chinese stereotype characters such as this video in Korea. That's why they can't think of anything other than "Oh, he's Chinese." Yes, It's racism.
- Scrub Me Mama with a Boogie Beat
As I mentioned earlier, black people are just literally "black people" to Koreans. They don't even know there are rumors like "black people are lazy" or "black people like watermelon." Therefore, from their point of view, this animation is all about "a beautiful woman comes to a lazy village and everyone sings."
I am not saying that there is no racism in Korea, but racist stereotypes in the U.S. and racist stereotypes in Korea are kinda different. For example, Black racism we have here is "They are all good at rapping, basketball, and they have a huge dick, oh and in Africa they believe in voodoo so they eat people..." thing, not "They love watermelon and chiken." If you ask Koreans about this, they will answer something stupid like this: "You guys love watermelon and chicken? We also love watermelon and chicken!"
U want some wettermelon niqqa ?
This is an amazing response
it’s true, as a korean person who was raised in the us, there’s no knowledge of blackface, offensive native american stereotypes, etc. because so much of that is directly from us history. like native american culture is extremely unique to us/north america and isn’t rly taught anywhere else. same with black culture. unlike the us or other western countries, korea has no history of black people in their country or nearby countries mostly due to the transatlantic slave trade being between different countries in the west, not as much the east. the stereotypes they know about are recent/modern ones, like rapping and basketball. i honestly doubt even the producers have any deep knowledge of the stereotypes other than that they are racist lol. it’s probably difficult to find thorough or well-translated information on western racial stereotypes. since korea has become a technologically advanced country around the 90s, there’s catching up to do for sure
after a while, instead of being upset i understood where they were coming from.
I've seen Korean comedians and Korean famous people do blackface and I've even seen them eat watermelon while in blackface. I would say that not everyone understands it but there are plenty of Korean people that do. I saw a kpop idol refer to himself a kunta Kente after lipstick was thickly applied to his lips is a exaggerated manner. And thought it was hilarious .........
when i was a kid my fav cartoon was russian "the wild swans" from 1962 and i only realised like months ago the whole plot is about black face. i never noticed that the protagonist changed her appearance and thats WHY she was treated badly and then magically turned "beautiful" back. not only i didnt get the plot i didnt even notice the change, so i suppose kids are very pure.
Minji is my favourite. Kind and sweet to visitors and children, with a side of scathing commentary and cursing like a sailor
Probably was just difficult to spot the racism in these clips because they were based on American stereotypes and discrimination. Racism exists in Korea, just not in the same way it does in the US. It would be interesting to see them have a discussion about the things in those cartoons and discuss why it didn’t speak to them the way it would to an American.
Who give a fk. Those niqqa are sure entertained me lol
They should have broke down each carton and what it means so they understood the cartoons and also the kids should have been there too.
Besides that i really enjoyed this video 😗❤️
"I'm Austin"
Jiwoo: That's sound like a vitamin name 😂😂
Both kids are so cute.
i don't think its good for the kids to not notice, bcos then u basically accept that as the norm, its literally how we form our world views and readily just accept these stereotypes as "normal", and that is also why the adults didn't realize it
I love how the trying to see if the kid knows Naruto. It’s too relatable
Wow. I'm actually really surprised that they didn't notice that these cartoons were racist.
it might be bc they were american cartoons that showed american racial stereotypes
@@lydiaaa5628 But it's because of American stereotypes the media portrays us that way to the world. People all over the world portray us a violence, ignorant, unintelligent, people. If someone in another country who don't have a melting pot of races and cultures see this they would believe we all act the way these same American stereotypes portrayed us as.
I’m shocked the racism wasn’t really recognized 😅 especially with the Peter Pan one. It seemed ppl didn’t realize how offensive it was.
especially the lazy town one
This was kind of a miss, man. They didn’t explain to the kids what was up afterward.
I got angry watching the cartons
Let the adults try to react to cartoons hidden adult jokes that flew on everyone's head when they were a kid
When left unchecked and corrected these stereotypes will remain permeated in korean media with things such as brown face, american indian wear by kpop groups and imitating angry black american behaviors. Korea PLEASE strive everyday to be better towards international audiences with empathy and integrity and clean out this filth.
This was actually a great way to show how insidious and destructive racism is. When presented as fun, normal and happy it worms it's way into a child's conciousness and teaches subtle lessons about what is normal, good, and beautiful and who is bad, lazy, stupid and ugly. There needed to be a much more informative conversation with both the children and adults.
Well blame the person who created don’t blame the people in the video lol. Idk why people are coming at the people in the video they should coming at the person who was in charge of this reaction and the video
Kids just don't care about race even kids who race is being portrayed in a stereotypical racist fashion. It's only as adults or when adults make an issue of it do kids become aware. I remember As a kid my brothers and my favorite cartoon was the Bugs Bunny: All This and Rabbit Stew episode. Was it racist? Yep, but we could care less, it was funny and that's all that mattered. Then again we also were raised on In Living Color where everybody was fair game.
You should’ve kept the children
How would the Koreans see a problem when they did this too and are still doing it😂 They still do blackface and their popular characters were inspired by these cartoons. Like plss😂
There it is!
Your second sentence in that is the key. It is popular there because it was popular in our own country first. All of the horrible stereotypes about Black people around the world were started by our own country's media. Our country put out those cartoons and movies and songs about us and told the world how to see us. I'm not saying other countries should not be held accountable when or once they know it's wrong but I think we should really be upset about the source. Especially when we've all been so indoctrinated here we now put it out ourselves and glorify it.
@@femmefatale6550 No, see what you're doing is obsolving them of what they're doing. For the most part, Koreans know when they're dealing with racist shit like this when it comes to them. The racist asian shit they saw here wasn't specifically towards their people, so they either didn't care or didn't think catch and thought it wasn't a problem. There was a point where they use to do this racist blackface play at some event every year but stop once they found out some black people were going to attend. Everytime someone trys to hold East Asian people accountable for their own actions ppl like you come in and make excuses. I'm holding them accountable, PERIOD. TODAY in 2022 and beyond, whoever is still continuing this racist shit is the problem.
@@femmefatale6550 Also, Koreans know that blackface is a problem. A famous black man in Korea tried to give awareness on how blackface is racist and they tried to get him kicked out of the country. He was forced to apologize. So now what?
@@hungrychat7304 There are many Koreans that do understand that it's wrong. But changing what's on television or in forms of media there such as blackface or cultural appropriation of hairstyles is going to take more than "one Black man" in Korea. Especially in a place that has very few Blk people in comparison to the native population. Do you know how long it took for a Black woman to be cast as anything other than a junkie, a maid, a slave, or a prostitute in a major motion picture in America? Almost 40 yrs. The legacy our own country has put out in the world is toxic. We have not even completely overcome it here. The younger Korean people are learning and quickly changing. Established media and older people will take longer, of course. I cut them some slack. They're new to this in the span of time. Our own country, more than a century. No excuse.
honestly this is the difference between America and other countries. I grew up watching these cartoons as a kid and never thought about it much but i realized there was a difference. As i got older i learned that these cartoons were racist. However the kids and even the adults had no idea it was racist until the director said something about it. We grew up being and learning about racism and they just grew up.
I think it makes sense that they didnt notice a lot wrong with the cartoons bc they weren’t familiar with these stereotypes
Why are the kids there if you are not going to explain it to them
Minji made a good point. This is a clear way of how racism can become, and probably did become, subconscious to some people. This type of media was the representation of black, Asian, and Native American people in America. Growing up children might I’ve thought this was funny and cute and not realize that it is an incorrect and disrespectful portrayal of people. They might grow up believing these false and harmful stereotypes.
Wish you guys said why they were racist, especially native Americans because a lot of people outside of America are not entirely educated on the subject I'm pretty sure
Austin is sexy. I’m here for him
Regarding the video, it’s difficult to not recognise the wrongness of something that doesn’t effect you.
Without context, I still would’ve been offended if I had been shown these videos without being told why I’m watching them. But that’s because I’m black and I’ve been exposed to racism my whole life, so I’m conditioned to see it everywhere
He is in a strange way
I didn't see anywhere where it was explained to them that these cartoons were from the 1930s 1940s and 50s possibly 60s things changed in the 70s and onward pretty much that is not completely until maybe the 90s on word.
I think the video shows a lot of differences in age groups, as well as cultural differences. kids don't have a racist bone in their body, because they are unknown to many things, when they see pictures and shapes, everything is based on emotion. its like the word racism doesn't exist because its in a form of pictures and characters, shapes, etc. until they grow up, and realize how it may affect them negatively. for adults, I think its more of a cultural stand point. adults in other countries, if they watch international news, will get the picture alot faster than those who don't because if you live in a country predominantly just one color, if another color suddenly comes along, you have this question in your head like "wait who this person, or why they look like that". many people are curious like that. same thing in America, if we meet a new person that we never seen, or features we never seen, we also are curious. I try to keep an open mind so that if there is any confusion or misinterpretation, we can solve the issue instead of jumping to conclusions. it is only AFTER it is explained, and people are still ignorant, then that becomes racism.
Their watching not connecting the dots and I'm sitting here gasping, wide eyed going 'No... Oh no!.... Oh my God!'
Maybe it's done off-camera, or doesn't make it into the final video edit, but this channel has a terrible habit of presenting something and then not giving any explanation to the people reacting. No context. No explanation of why any of the clips were racist. No history of the portrayal of these minorities in media. Just... "these were all about racism". That's not only a poor explanation, it's an inaccurate one. They weren't "about racism", they were racist. From the discussion at the end the people reacting still had a very poor grasp of the clips they watched, and no attempt was made to correct it. Minji kinda seemed to get it, but still seemed to have a pretty poor grasp of why. You guys can be better.
Minji is so cute when she's "taking care" of the boy :3 😆
Those children aren't going to see the racism in those cartoons because
1. They are children and unless they are raised to view things through the lens of race, they won't see it.
2. They aren't American, every racial stereotype is one cultivated through western eyes. The racist caricature of blacks, Mesoamericans, and Chinese were all would require one to have a level of understanding of American history to point it out. It would be like if south Koreans made a racist caricature of the Chinese or North Koreans, I could see it and wouldn't know it because I lack that cultural context or connection to understand it.
No, you raise kids to be smart and notice differences--in treatment, environment, what is considered pretty vs ugly, acceptable vs not acceptable. You teach children to be observant. If you don't you are not educating your children. If they ask you why the differences are there then you have to explain that it IS based on race and that is what you are uncomfortable with. You don't want children to look at things thru the lens of race but that literally was the lens.
I swear, we have no trouble bursting their bubble about Santa Claus, but we'll shield and blind them from racism, something prevalent and harmful to all of us, all day every day. So that it continues to be perpetuated. Make it make sense.
Incidentally, children are smarter than you think and they quickly learn to resent you when you know there's a problem, you don't do anything to fix it and instead try to cover up the truth.
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As someone who grew up watching 'Fantasia', I can honestly say, I don't remember an African. Am. centaur, in that movie.
That was the uncut scene. They cut a lot of these movie scenes out not too long ago because Walt Disney was outed as a racist
0:30 Her parents might be Choi Jiwoo fans.... the kid probably don't even know who that is lol
this reminded me as of my childhood watching cartoons/anime and they'd always have that one racist joke (usually about black people) and i had to pretend it didn't happen 😁 ah,,,
Oh my god I loved aristocats as a kid! I had no idea that scene was even racist nor did I really remember it. Just how subtly things like that were in children's media is concerning.. & I'm glad it didn't affect me negatively
those cartoon was painful to watch ... haha
Haha?
Minji's cringe face but trying to keep a smile around the kid in the room.
This video didn't tackle the issue like it should have. I don't expect South Koreans to understand the relationship of racism, minorities, and the States like we do, but I think you could have been more informative. At least, you could have researched better or asked people who are more familiar with the American Dilemma for a thorough picture.
There is also no age too young to begin understanding what racism means and looks like. I know because I started seeing it when I was a toddler. I was on the receiving end of it when I first started school. This was a learning opportunity for them that you missed.
i agree with this 100%! i wonder if it’s more difficult finding actually informative/thorough info on racist us stereotypes in korea tho. maybe they can translate but lord knows google translate is the worst lol
Wish you had american of same age discuss this since Koreans have there own prejudices against other colors or races. Would have been a great teaching tool for both cultures. Everyone looks lost!
you should inform them of the racist connotations in the animations rather than leaving it to their own interpretation?????
I like that they touched on a very important note, growing up watching this cartoons then as an adult you don’t even realize that what you learned from those cartoons was racism. Those cartoons pushed stereotypes that brainwashed kids into thinking that’s how those demographics are. They raised ignorant questions like if a black person gets in a pool or bath all the dark color might come off. It’s very hurtful to those groups they stereotyped. All native Americans are violent even against children and push drugs, there are grown adults these days that still think that because of Peter Pan. Disney pushed a lot of horrible propaganda in the early days like this and it has truly shaped a generation.
right! as a chinese person growing up in southeast asia, i remembered watching that mickey mouse explosion episode and thought it was funny that his faced turned black but i didnt know that it was intentional and it was called blackface. kids should be educated on racism is so they can be aware of whats offensive and remove bad stereotypes of POC
8:10 so true!!! Also, I feel like some of these kids noticed the wrongs too.
Unless you were brought up during the times, that there actually was racism, like between the 1930's to the early 1980's , you wouldn't understand it. I grew up in the 1960's to the 1970's and seen it first hand. Just before and after the Civil Rights Act was passed in the USA , 1968.
There's still racism now in the USA and other mixed race countries. Kids/adults that were born after the 80's and live in these countries get it easily. These ppl shown here grew up in a country where 99% of the ppl around them look similar to themselves. They won't understand it bc of WHERE they grew up, not WHEN. Racism did not end in the 80's.
Honey, racism didn't go anywhere. It just evolved. It's still all around. It's just systemic now.
what do you mean "actually was racism".....
I forgot how completely RACIST Disney was…🤣 but man the black face though…and I loved cats 😭
It shocks me how much to my don’t realize how racist the cartoons were but I do realize that in other countries racism wasn’t either taught to them or they just don’t know much. It kinda hurts knowing other countries don’t know about your suffering and ancestors suffering but some or a lot of us know about other countries suffering and racism they have received
The world doesn't revolve around you
Wtf...Y'all aren't that special as you think...
@@andreysokolov8974 I’m clearly speaking to a racist but I never said that. Don’t add words that aren’t there. I do know that words can be taken any type of way and because of this I won’t get made because a racist will say ignorant things like this because that all they see are ignorance, Blind as a bat. Please have a nice day and remember to always educate yourself if not you’ll always be lead by ignorance. 🙂😘 be safe to the world is full of hate and I’m sure you are part of it.
When I was young, I had a VHS with world war two propaganda and incredibly racist warner bros cartoons, and I also loved Peter Pan and Aristocats. It's eye-opening to think back on seeing such heightened caricatures of folk and having no clue what it really was. Yes I was an innocent child and didn't know, but the fact that I was innocent and ignorant made it dangerous to view because my frame of reference for entire communities was based on these "red men" and "savage tribes". That is why it is important to show children that is wrong.
The two cartoons I remember the most vividly are "Scrap Happy Daffy" and "Jungle Jitters". The second one is part of the Censored Eleven list, which was a group of cartoons pulled from broadcasting in the 60s for their ethnic stereotypes. As a child, obviously I had no idea about this. I didn't learn about the severity of the racist caricatures until I was in my late teens-early 20s. The sooner these images are taught for what they are in a child's mind, the better they will understand the world.
I hope the channel educates the children about what they have just seen, because it does take years of unlearning that frame of reference. Don't worry about how to approach it, children can handle difficult topics.
I understand why you didn't keep the kids there for the explanation but I hope someone explained to them after the shoot what the videos were about - like how you did with Austin and Minji but on a child's level :)
they commented that they had a convo abt it with the kids after the shoot. i think (like you said) they probably had a different level of convo with the kids since it would be very different explaining it to little kids who have never heard of racism vs. adults that know what it is:)
The Centaur in the first clip wasn't really a racist taunting against Black people, in Western Ancient Symbology there were Always Black and White Centaurs. It was the servant part and full lips at the time .
Since Julia Robert's in 1990, " Pretty Woman". Full lips like Black Westerners has been desirable to White Westerners. Just like Tanning to make One's skin Darker decades before by Westerners is always the Opposite of Asian Nations. Speaking again if Westerners. White Westerners who do not have Naturally Curly Hair Perm their hair to make it more Voluptuous and curly, while Black Westerners perm their hair to abolish curls and make it straight. Funny how one wishes.
The Crows in Dumbo however, lol.
The children only seeing the gags and musical numbers. Was by design so that kids exposed to this back in the day just see a show, but grow up with that racist seed in their head that can shape their perception of marginalized groups like Natives and black people. I also understand for Koreans seeing this won't get it as these films are mired in American culture and history and thus lack the cultural context of what's wrong with these films. I hope after this video this was a learning experience for them, hopefully the kids can be informed about what wrong with the films and reinforce the idea of racial/ethnic equality to them.
The black face OMG. I was like what cartoons are these then you said it's about racism I was like. Yeah definitely saw that
Wow, those cartoons had all kinds of racial stereotypes in them... I guess living in the US I could see them very easily.
As I'm watching this I was like they only showing old racist cartoons and they don't even know it
What was the point of showing them this with out properly educating them on why this isn’t okay?🤨
Its south korea... they brush everything off thats why even their rapist get away with it most of the time and even only get really short term sentences.
Sorry guys. I appreciate that you guys want to bring attention to these topics and listen to your audience well. But this did not make the difference hoped for. Hope in the next video more will be explained and addressed on why these are terrible.
As a black man that Mickey mouse dynamite shit was the funniest shit I've seen all day lmao
Maybe it’s bc how I was raised and that I live in American that it’s hard to believe they didn’t see anything racist about those films lmao. Like Ik when I was a child I wouldn’t of known racist things that were outside my race but it’s also important to teach children about those racist things so they know this is bad or they might become racist without realizing it bc the media loves to spread untruthful things about other races even too this day, it happens in Korea too- there’s so much negative stereotypes towards blk ppl and blackfacing in Korea I just wonder how that affects Korean children watching their favorite idols do these things. I think the children should of heard that those films were racist and how hurtful they could be towards others because other children don’t have that luxury to bypass racism. It could get them seriously hurt or even killed.
I don’t understand why the kids were invited to watch but not educated on the topic of race??
This would have been good if the producers gave a thorough explanation on why racism is not good especially they included children on this kind of reaction video. Im half korean and half filipino.. I watched a show that mentioned about students bullying him and tend to call him "filipino" as an insult for having darker skin. And also a certain host from the show said that he really looks like a security guard from the airport in the philippines.
Just adding on to the comments about how this could have been done so much better! I think doing a follow-up video with examples of "yellow peril" and anti-Asian racism would be more relatable and help the kids especially understand why the other racial stereotypes were just as bad. Still images might work even better - Tintin's portrayal of Japanese people, Dr. Seuss political cartoons from WWII, etc. Lots of examples that would also give the non-Asian audience a better understanding of how hurtful it can be.
I watched fantasia a lot growing up without ever knowing until now that the version I saw must have been a rerelease. The racism must have been realised and refuted because the black character/s were removed. I suppose I'm thankful I saw the version without racism. It's sad to see it was so normalised they felt comfortable even making racist cartoons for children. May be one of the reasons my mother was so against us watching much American television. There are a lot of very negative and questionable behaviours and attitudes portrayed even in American kids shows now. I often wonder how a lot of them get approved and why some seemingly very twisted people are able to hold jobs in organisations that create content for children.
dang you guys should have done the lady and the tramp cats too.
I wonder if it's the way that race is perceived or treated in their country as compared to in others, like the US? Not to say that there's not racism in Korea, but their history is very different from that of America.
this is true, plus they’re a racially homogenous country so the majority of ppl living there are korean which is very diff from the us
흑인 희화화 영상인데.... 어른이 봐도 알아채지 못하는게 놀라움. 샘 오취리의 분노를 이해하지 못했던 우리나라 국민들이 참 부끄럽다...
미국애들이 흑인 희화화하려고 만들어둔 인종차별 코드를 전혀 상관도 없는 한국 사람이 이해 못한다고 우리나라 국민이 부끄럽대 ㅉㅉ 인종차별도 미국애들이 하고 인종차별 카툰도 걔네가 그렸는데 갑분싸 한국국민이 부끄럽다는 어느 시녀분
I swear each clip made me cringe. I mean it just shows how a homogeneous society can sometimes be unaware of some foreign things. At least they learn and try to understand, some people don't and that's really sad to me.
Sociopolitical advantages of Homogeneous societies far exceed any perceived necessity of cross cultural awareness. S. Koreans largely live on the Korean peninsula. United States in an ocean away, the African continent is literally a continent away, there is no immediate threat of Koreans having to express racial solidarity.
I was squirming from the beginning, realising that when I was a young child much would pass me by here. Maybe I would have been ten years or so before the penny dropped. Here in England I remember turning against The Black and White Minstrels Show before the BBC did, and the housekeeper in Tom and Jerry
if youre going to show racist old cartoons (there are a lot, america is extremely racist) maybe it would be good to use the thousands of experts who have studied this to explain the context and actual history... instead of making american racism some vague thing. like mickey going and putting on blackface and what minstrelsy is...
0:56 - Welp, that weird moment when you realise asian people call "Inuyasha" or "Naruto" cartoons 🤯🤯
It'd be weirder if I ever hear a japanese person call it "cartoon" 🤣🤣😂😂
What are you talking about? That's literally what they are.
Anime stands for animation. in Japan everything is Anime even shrek
Many in the comment section should come down & chill.
Give folks time to put shit together. These are short videos, not 1 hour long ones.
Plus the kids don’t need to be made aware of what they don’t see. Just because y’all want them to.
Especially if it has no relevance to their everyday lives.
What references do they have with racist depiction of Western cartoons???
The rest of the world does not evolve around American history.
They’re making an effort and y’all already jumping on their throats as if they owe you something.
Sure racism should be discussed, appropriately.
I do agree with one of the comments that they should use more yellow peril depictions so they can comprehend the topic better.
4:19 Be careful minji-nim
I'm glad people are more open about Racism and other things like sexuality. I think everyone could see how wrong cartoons like some of these ones were back then.
not to many people know that Disney have a lot and even movie that have hidden thing that are racist, in my case i don't recommend any cartoons from Disney even the movie
Funny how this test, just showed that there is no racism in cartoons unless you are taught otherwise. And the people in the comment section are trying to impose it. Yes, racism exists, but these kids and even the adults just saw drawings singing, because they haven't been exposed to other countries's excessive drama. No damage was done.
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that's what germans say about their 1000 year old fairytales with jewish people as the villians. "Oh, there's nothing wrong with this! It's cute children's entertainment!"
@@queerlibtardhippie9357 remember, the problem is not the contentin the media, but the people that impose it as reality. People can consume any form of old media today, enjoy it, and not look down or discriminate against anyone when they are taught right. If we go by your logic, games, movies and books would've been banned in this age. But studies show that the problem is not the content of the media, but the teachings.
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the problem to me is the animators didnt care about offending the minorities with the cartoons. it was a different time but it was wrong then as its wrong now but when i say that then all this sjw talk comes out
Even for me i need to digging enough to know any meaning of all of that animation means
The Aristocrats was definitely a Jab against all Asians, Koreans included. Siamese basically meant All Asians , including Koreans at the time .
Ya'll the racism isn't really recognized because people openly being racist doesn't happen too much in Korea. Like you won't often see somebody being openly racist against somebody in public. You will barely see somebody insulting/assaulting another race in korea. Cause in America you see that kind of stuff a lot. In Korea not so much. But anyways, I really do wish that Asians will become more aware of racism and I hope they become more educated about what they should/shouldnt do. Since a lot of people are normalizing wearing box braids as a non-black person in east-asian countries which sucks.
+i really wished OSSC told them what was racist in the cartoon clips.
I find the first part of your comment hard to believe when so many people have posted videos about experiencing racism in Korea whether it was subtle or outwardly displayed. At this point in time, people choose to learn or stay willfully ignorant.
@@jerseygirl6221 Like yes racism happens in Korea but not a lot like in America or something. Like I'm south east Asian but I don't really look Asian and my skin is dark and I've experienced racism in Korea before but it doesn't happen often. Like the years that I've been living in Korea, i have barely seen people being racist. Ofcourde I have seen em be racist but not a lot.
To do this video and not actively explain why it’s wrong is no different then simply watching it as people back then did.
I really wish the kids were kept in for the explanation that the cartoons were actually bad 😔
Those cartoons were awful...Disney..oh my goodness! I truly cannot understand how the adults can watch those horribly racist cartoons and repeating the peter pan song. Especially strange to see a cartoon town called lazy town and recognize that the people in the cartoon are black but not connect the dots at the problem with that unless thats what you already think about them. This video is pointless if there is no education as to why these are wrong.
This video was horrible. Y’all didn’t even explain why the content was racist.
Minji is pretty.
OMG, THE SHIT IN THESE CARTOONS IS SERIOUSLY TRIGGERING ME!
You kinda whiffed this one. These cartoons were being shown in theaters and on TV into the late 50's. They were taken down beginning in the 60's as the Civil Rights movement gained traction in America. I do think you should have shown a "Yellow Peril" cartoon from the 30's and 40's. Though maybe not with the kids. I grew up with segregation and remember White Only drinking fountains, waiting rooms, restaurants, and schools. The Civil Rights demonstration began when I was in my tweens. In the south blacks were required to step aside on the sidewalk for a white person. Asians were treated much the same then. We seem to be trying to repeat history in America lately.