Is "The Siamese Cat Song" "racist"?

I don't think so, but apparently Disney disagrees with me...

[www.newsweek.com]

Why would someone remake a classic like Lady And The Tramp? Because they lack the imagination to create something new. The plays nominated at the Tony awards were 70 percent revivals or plays based on movies. Peggy's songs We Are Siamese and He's A Tramp matched perfectly to the animation were the best part of the film. Maybe Disney is still mad she won her lawsuit.

Racist?? Absolutely ridiculous!

The song? No.

The animation? There is room for argument.

And yet, we are finding out that what is being taken to task is not

the animation
(created by Disney's own in-house team)

but

the song
(written by an outside team hired by Disney, and thus not part of Disney's own personnel).


Another case of political correctness taken to an extreme -- and perhaps an excuse, as well, to create a new composition, allowing in turn for all the benefits, financial and otherwise, that such a creation has the potential to generate.

Ivan

I agree this is extreme. If you have a Chinese pug, and you make it speak Chinese, is that racist? No. I am a mix of many countries. So what?