How Is Aladdin Related To Imperialism

Hollywood is the land of the movies, a land where fiction becomes non-fiction, a land where one can portray their vision to thousands if not millions of people. In Hollywood a countless number of scripts come to life to resurrect joy in people’s hearts and offer them refuge from the outside world. Movies are the place in which most of our thinking comes from. However, the purpose of movies often takes a turn for the worse. For years, a lot of countries have been depicted to the public as some kind of monstrosity due to their wrong portrayal through Hollywood movies and one of the most highlighted ones in the history of wrong depictions was Aladdin. A simple kids movie that might have created a dilemma over how Arabs live and how their culture actually is. In this essay the several flows found in the movie will be pointed out and debunked due to its unrealistic approach to

Less well-known thought that the movie sparked rather a controversy in more than one way. This can be seen as a justification to imperialism. The West’s justification for colonialism is that they wanted to ‘civilize’ the uncivilized countries -third world countries including the Arab World- and introduce the idea of freedom to them, labeling them as oppressed. This ideal started when Christopher Columbus and his people discovered and settled in the Americas and were treated as divine beings and holy gods so white people felt like they are superior to other races. Since the Native Americans felt like they have been blessed by the Whites, the Whites started to believe that by colonizing other nations they will also bless them and as a result, make them more civilized and modern. Thus when Aladdin was created it is considered mainly aimed to show that Americans are more supreme than Arabs