Stereotypes In Zootopia

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For my Unlearn week event, I choose to attend Zootopia. Although I do not like to watch movies, I decided to go along with my floor and was surprised by the depth of the seemingly "childish" movie. Before the movie started, a women came on stage to introduce two psychological concepts, and instructed us to pay attention to them throughout the movie. These concepts were: implicit bias, and stereotypes. Along with explaining these terms, she stressed that we all hold biases nonmatter our gender or ethnic background; however, with intentionality, we can seek to not act on them. Furthermore, the movie depicted a society where animals were personified to demonstrate human interactions and wrongdoing. The main character, a bunny, was determined to

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