No More Spitting on the Little Arab Boy

After 40 years of promoting world peace and showcasing the cultures of the world, the renovated "It's A Small World" ride at Disneyland re-opened. Only now, instead of all the little children of the world singing and playing together in unity, they've been deported in favor of Disney brand character dolls.

That's right. Instead of happy little children from around the globe, you now get Aladdin, Nemo, Cinderella, Alice from Wonderland (what continent is that in again?) and about two dozen more trademarked Disney properties/characters.



Also intermixed into the charm of the "Small World" song, are snipets from some of Disney's hit soundtracks.

Disney says it replaced the human dolls with make-believe figures to keep the aging ride appealing to younger generations and give it a new twist.
(Twist = marketing, self-promotion of kids' videos and merchandise)

Yet after initial reports of the changes were leaked last year, the son of the ride's original designer, children's illustrator Mary Blair, wrote an open letter to Disney executives blasting the changes as "a gross desecration of the ride's original theme."

Disney classists aren't happy with the change. Why, one of my fondest memories of the ride was visiting there after 9/11, and seeing the little Arab boy at the entrance covered in loogie.



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