More Prose and Stuff

Oooh! I like the structure of these sentences, and how it situates the film, Aladdin, in a social, cultural, and political context of anti-Arab sentiment in the US. It raises the potential political stakes from an animated feature like Aladdin. I also like the air of sarcasm too:

To be fair, no one expects Disney to provide a fair and balanced portrayal of another culture for it certainly has "Disnified" Chinese (Mulan), Native Americans (Pocahantas), and Indian (The Jungle Book) cultures. However, the depictions in Aladdin are particularly nefarious given the anti-Arab climate that was reigning in America during the first Gulf War and especially today in a post-9/11 context. The film Aladdin is essentially an Orientalist production laden with ideas of exotifiation, domestication, and negative connotations and stereotypes the West hold true about the East, which ultimately carries tremendous social and political ramifications for Arabs.