Multicultural Disney!

One of the biggest developments of Walt Disney Studios, mainly during the Renaissance period, was the branching out into other cultures. At the time of the earlier classic feature films such as Snow White and Sleeping Beauty, all of the characters were very white orientated. As we come into the late 1980's more of the released films consist of character of different cultural backgrounds. For example, Aladin, Mulan, Pocahontas, are all set in different places of the world with characters of different ethnicity. These films were later followed by The Princess and the Frog in 2009.
I think this was a really important development for the productions of Walt Disney Studios, because of its young audiance. Its good for children to become used to seeing characters of different ethnicities from a young age because, well, it just teaches them that people's cultural backgrounds vary!

Putting the serious stuff aside however, I think the different settings for these films make them all the more interesting to watch. The environments and music are all suited to the specific place in which they are set, which makes them eve more distinctive and memorable.