Cultural Analysis

Little Rascals:

Have you ever seen the Little Rascals? Have you ever compared yourself to one of the characters when you were growing up? Im sure many people have, including me. Looking back on the movie it has many different stereotypes throughout the film. Not all of them seem to be negative. Each of the characters in the movie look very different from one another. There is a black boy, who seems to be looked at positively from the other children, but many people watching the show could see this as trying to break down on the black kid calling this a very racist film. There is also a little white freckled boy which people portray as your "typical white boy". The little sweet blonde white girl has a very positive attitude the whole story. The different white characters in the story tend to get a little racist throughout the show. There is a conversation that takes place between Dickie, and Stymie.

Dickie: “Hey fellas c’mere. Take a look at our uncle. Pop says he’s plenty wild, too.”Stymie: “He sure do look wild. What makes him so black?”

Dickie: “Mom says he’s the black sheep of the family.”

Stymie: “Them horns make him look more like a goat!”

As children watch this movie they develop different opinions. Children watching this can compare themselves to one of the characters, and when they do they want to act like them. When a child growing up usually tends to see something on the TV that catches their attention, whether it is because they look like them, act like them, or even just they want to be like them a child tends to start doing what the person is doing. When Dickie and Stymie are having the conversation that appears to be extremely racist, it plants a picture in the watches mind.




The little Rascals there are many different scenes that show stereotypes that are referring to Stymie which is that little African American boy. At one point in the movie all of the children are going around and they are explain different wishes they have. The wish that comes from Stymie is “I wish I had some chicken”. When viewers watching this see the young boy saying this it automatically gives them an image of something that someone who is African American enjoys. After analysing this movie I learned that there really is some stereotypes that are portrayed in the film.




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhWY6yFJsDY Showing how Stymie wants friedchicken