Animated Cartoons a Socialization agent
Socialization is carried out through so-called agents (peer group, church, family, school, etc.), but in the face of other socialization agents, in the modern world television is considered to be the most effective in the dissemination of certain ideas, knowledge, and information as it is easy to retain the information through audio-visual transmission.
But Also ‘Old is Gold’ Cartoons missed by Kids.
Television impact tools are programs, advertisements, news, movies, and cartoons. Cartoons are more attractive to children. They influence a child’s perception of the world, the formation of values, and the upbringing process.
In the course of socialization and as a result of it, person acquires some knowledge, experience, skills that contribute to his integration into society, understanding the laws, rules and moral norms of society.
In spite of the fact that socialization continues throughout the whole lifetime, in the first stage of life, that of childhood, it is more important because as due to the biological and genetic peculiarities, child’s first years impressions form his personality, character, preferences and behaviour.
Cartoons’ influence on Kids
Scientists are unanimous on the fact that cartoons have a positive or negative impact on children.
Negative impact.
More research has been done to clarify the negative effects of cartoons on the behaviour of children.
Scientists mainly distinguish health damage, harsh behaviour and sexuality symptoms.
American Pediatric Academy experts founded that the children who watch cruel cartoon are becoming aggressive, disobedient, cruel and angry.
Cartoons help children develop imagination, but its negative impact may be that children can stay in the imaginary world for a long interval.
Positive impact:
Among the positive effects, scientists distinguish auxiliary role of cartoons: education of children, additional information about the world and interesting entertainment.
Cartoons teach children the rules of behaviour in the society (respect for adults, teamwork, etc.), enrich the vocabulary (the child can master the language while watching a cartoon in a foreign language), helping to discover the world (Dora. traveller, Dexter’s Laboratory).
Many of the cartoon characters healthy lives characters, have many positive characteristics, and children often imitate their heroes. Cartoons help children develop imagination.
In the modern world,
cartoons are almost free from propaganda on war, and some cartoons are a means of spreading humanistic values and ideas.
“Finding Nemo” (2003), “Zootopia” (2016), “Finding Dory” (2016) cartoons by journalists and film critics carry out that mission in the best way.
“Finding Nemo” and “Finding Dory” cartoons show the relationships between people with disabilities (by the example of fish).
Walt Disney has become a family for Kids
According to social psychology, human gender, the gender behaviour is shaped from an early age by the ideas of the roles of women and men received in socialization processes.
Scientists call this a distinctive socialization.
Disney was often accused of spreading anti-feminist ideas; the main target of criticism was the Disney’s most famous cartoon series, “Disney’s Princesses.”
In 1939-1959, Disney’s princesses did not stand out with their individualistic traits, except that everyone was beautiful; had a pleasant voice and were good housewives.
Just that time white women got their electoral right, but their role in the society had not changed so much.
Heroes of “Snow White and Seven Dwarves” (1937), “Cinderella” (1950) and “Sleeping Princess” (1959) were mostly passive princesses who were not involved in any active action during the entire cartoon and were finally saved by the prince.
The new season of Disney begins with the “Little Mermaid” (1989), which lasted from 1989 to 1998.
This period can be conditionally called as “the girls in distress” (“Little Mermaid” 1989, “Beauty and the Beast” (1991), “Aladdin” (1992), “Pacahonthas” (1995) and “Mulan” (1998)).
In this period the personality of cartoons characters is emphasized.
They have their own dreams, aspirations. There’s a special need to emphasize Belle, the protagonist of the cartoon “Beauty and the Beast” (1991), who is not a princess, and the story of her and the beast’s love is about the inner beauty.
“Mulan” (1998) is the most feminist cartoon of this era.
The protagonist goes to the Chinese army to save her father’s honour, but she has to pretend to be a man for it.
In 2009, the era of Disney’s pro-feminism began with the cartoon “Princess and the Frog”.
It is true, there are romantic relationships in the movie “Princess and the Frog” and “Rapunzel” (2010), but the main characters are bright personalities and they save men several times.
The cartoons “Brave” (2012), “Frozen” (2013), and the “Moana” (2016) focus on family love.
Perhaps, Disney is one of the multiplayer giants, both full-length cartoons and cartoon series of its production are demanded by children, so their impact on children’s own social role is quite great.
Cartoons are an important teaching part of the children’s leisure activities and have an impact on their development.
To protect children from the negative effects of cartoons, parents are advised to follow what cartoon the kids are watching, how many hours and age limitations.
Where the ‘old is gold’ cartoons gone?
We have been watching anime since 2005, when Doraemon, Power rangers , Pokemon, Shin-chan and Kiteretsu, Tom & Jerry were at their prime.
It was during the time when we actually had great cartoons and anime.
There was a time when Cartoon Network was the channel where Indian anime fans would find exclusive anime. Now, we have Gadget guru Ganesh, Selfie with Bajrangi…many more Indian versions of Cartoons. But are they interesting and knowledgable as Oswald, Thomas & Friends and Noddy?
Even The Barbie movies have changed to Virtual gaming world Barbie which has a story of no logic And who can forget Ramayana the Legend of Prince Ram?
The movie was released in 1992 to strengthen Indo-Japanese relations.
Anime has achieved so much in the last 30-40 years with its mature storytelling, great characters, beautiful soundtrack and stunning animation. So, why does our society mainly industry have a problem with anime?
The answer is simple, to decrease the audiences’ IQ and deprive them of their understanding capability.
They don’t want the audiences to be smart because if they’re not smart, they’re easily manipulated and can be made to watch dumb movies, shows and channels.
So, they removed anime shows and brought the atrocity of shows such as Little Singham, Kid Krrish etc. During the pandemic, however people started to understand the downsides of mainstream media and Bollywood.
The characters Bheem eats Besan Ke Laddoo. Where Popeye gets his power from eating spinaches, Bheem somehow gets stronger by eating Laddoos. In real life, we’ll be getting diabetes if we ate too much. And Motu eats samosa !
So these types of cartoons that kids of this generation are watching are completely misleading and bland. Anime means animation series made in Japan.
The Genre
The genre is widely known throughout the world and has millions of fans. It has not only created a huge impact on its fans but also on cultures.
Our industry is making, “netizens” started playing the patriotism card into it. This isn’t the only time that they brought the patriotism card in similar discussion.
It just shows how there has been a decline in the quality of Indian cartoons, just like of Bollywood and Journalism.
Just like these shows, anime is also made for late teenage and adult audiences not only for kids. Some of these series are Power Rangers, Barbie Movies, Marvel supermen shows and so on. Anime also touches upon mature themes of racism, war, violence, friendships, depression, loss, bullying and so on.
And they do it in a better way, unlike in Bollywood, which mostly makes love stories.
There is a severe need in India of the old is gold cartoons shows to educate kids from start, to develop there minds which at present are not provided the present cartoon shows.
Still Indian animation has to reach much, it is lacking behind !
