Why do Americans hate Disney's Pocahontas so much?

There is also this: So Pocahontas was a Filipino model? Finally, everything was exaggerated and romanticized to the point where it was kind of ridiculous and felt a wee bit like political propaganda. read more

I have a very good friend who is a Native American and we have discussed Pocahontas. She said she didn’t believe it was racist at all. She considers it just a romanticized and partially fictionalized true story, told in true Disney form with talking trees, friendly raccoons and hummingbirds. read more

Pocahontas was a clunky attempt at the sort of watered-down corporate ‘inclusivity’—seen everywhere in the 1990s—that downplays differences of background and opinion, and completely ignores the grim wheel of history in favor of a fuzzy, feel-good narrative that viewers never have to really ponder afterwards. read more

Disney’s Pocahontas gives just enough of a flogging to the “real” bad guys to leave the non-native viewers coming away feeling as though they’ve done the good work of recognizing their own faults, while the pain of forced assimilation and erasure continues for the Powhatan Nation and others. read more

Photo Source: Disney. The Real Pocahontas. One of the biggest issues with this movie is the fact that Pocahontas was a real person. Her real name was Amounte but was also called Matoaka. Pocahontas was a nickname meaning "playful one" because she was notoriously curious, much like her character in the movie. read more