Rudolph

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Ok hyes it was supposed to teach a lesson about accpeting those that are different and they can be useful to...
but it really teaches

1 if someone is different but that difference does not affect their ability to do their job, get rid of them
2. unless you can use them to your advantage

I never saw it that way. I just never understood why they were mean to Rudolph. I was told it was because of his red nose and I couldn't understand what was so bad about it. My mother told me people are afraid of things they don't understand, so they are mean about it.


But they did learn to accept him after he did something wonderful. I bet they all wished they had a red nose that glowed. That's what I find funny about society. You are a mutant but yet when you so something wonderful with your difference, people finally accept you.

It was like that in Benny & Joon. Benny hated Sam for his difference, but when he saw that people liked his antics when they were in the park, he started to accept him for who he is. Then he was telling him he had a gift and he should be doing something with it and trying to get him to travel to perform them. Why did he like him all of a sudden? Because other people liked his antics. He drew a crowd and they all clapped at his performance.

I always saw it more of a story of "Don't make fun of the people because of their differences, because those differences can end up making them much more important than you."

I get the message: "Differences are only accepted once they are proven to be useful."

Thus affirming Eggman's original assertion, because the "Wonderful" thing he did was to guide
Santa's sleigh through the worst snowstorm ever, thus "Saving" Christmas.

Make yourself useful to society, and they'll ignore your differences. Make noise, disrupt commerce, and demand to have things your way because you are different; and then make even more noise, and disrupt even more commerce when you don't get your way because you are too different - THAT is a sure-fire method of making yourself an outcast!