Cultural Contact Disney Style

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Cultural Contact Disney Style!

• What two societies come into cultural contact
  in this Disney story?
• What motivates this cultural encounter?
• What knowledge of the other does each group
  have before the encounter?
• What are some of the initial outcomes of this
  encounter? Does each community respond the same
  way?
• How do the belief systems and values of each
  community impact the nature of this encounter?
• Do you think this portrayal of cultural contact
  could be historically accurate? How might the
  real life situation might have been a little more
  complex?