How #Disney and #Pixar mislead your kids
▻http://finance.yahoo.com/news/how-disney-and-pixar-are-misleading-your-kids-190252975.html
It’s cool to be poor.
That’s the implied message in some of the most popular children’s movies of all time, including classics such as “Snow White” and modern hits such as “Aladdin,” "A Bug’s Life" and “Ratatouille,” according to a new study from Duke University researchers. The study examined the socioeconomic status of characters in 32 G-rated films and found a kind of Lake Woebegone effect: The wealthy were overrepresented, poverty was glamorized and upward mobility seemed effortless.
▻http://sites.duke.edu/dukeresearch/2016/03/07/in-the-land-of-fantasy-inequality-is-benign