I'm in the class Journalism 275 and a few weeks ago we went over ethics. We watched a video on how Disney movies can affect children. It shocked me to see that adults perceive these cartoons as being too, for lack of a better term, racist.
When we are children, we look at things with only two levels: right and wrong, good and evil. Children don't go into the meaning any further than that. If parents can't help their children distinguish this then the movies and cartoons could have some negative effects. On the other hand, do we really notice that Ariel literally has to use her feminine wiles to win over the prince, or that Bell has to stop the abusive nature of the Beast?

It's almost as if we are the child parents believe they screwed up on, and now they are trying to fix their mistakes with the next generation.In today's society everything we watch, read and even listen to is decided through ethics. But how far is too far? For students who were born before the 1990s, we have all experienced the cartoons and toys that parents recently found useless. But has our generation of young adults become so tainted by the violence we never seemed to notice?
I am an early-riser in the morning. When I wake up, I turn on the television to watch the news and the weather report. Chances are after that I will end up watching the end of a  cartoon for children. What I see is rather odd.
We went from "Looney Tunes," which has been stated to be not suitable for children, to The Wiggles and "Dora the Explorer."
Now I am not saying these shows are bad, but adults consider a cartoon like "Looney Tunes," to be too violent for children today when a whole generation of children grew up on these cartoons.
Do we seem to be overly violent or worse off since we watched them?
It's almost as if we are the child parents believe they screwed up on, and now they are trying to fix their mistakes with the next generation.