or even downright insulting to other cultures or beliefs. Not to mention it's own internal problems. The story telling can be fantastic at times, but it tends to have a very high opinion of itself, and the story telling doesn't necessarily translate to a well espoused political message. Ehh.. Anyways...
O-o?
It uses Pastiches at best... I am PRETTY SURE Opal isn't meant to literally be Shiva.
And... Political message?
If anything the problem with Steven Universe is that Steven is slowly becoming the worst character on it. Being overly whiny and EXTREMELY freeken manipulative...
You sure you didn't mean Avatar? That show features other cultures more prominently (In more ways then "not meant to take seriously" symbolism) and was nothing but political messages. Or perhaps Adventure Time that includes other cultures only to make fun of them and had a FEW political messages?
Or maybe Gargoyles that featured an insulting caricature of a culture... and has a few political messages.
I'm pretty sure Tabaluga The Little Dragon is american imperialist propaganda
From what I remember it was the fat snowman who was capitalist, simply due to the fact he had ice cream. He also had a servant he sexually abused.
I mean, there is a joke, very heavily based on reality, that during communist times kids asked their parents to go to the candy store to look at pictures of ice cream.
Anyway, now that I think about it, we would totally make ice cream in Poland back then, if not for the simple fact alcohol has lower freezing temperature.
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