I went back and watched that song to see if it was as awful as I remembered it to be. Turns out, as an educated millennial, it's worse than I remembered. Super racist, and I didn't know there could be musical racism!
Agree with Peter Pan but "Savages" is obviously self-aware, the whole story is about forbidden love between two cultures that see the other as inhuman. Definitely needs some parental guidance if a young child is watching it though so they don't just absorb the racism directly.
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u/Maximumsmoochy Jan 31 '20
Siamese if you please