Mulan, released on June 19, 1998, is a Disney film based on a Chinese legend of Hua Mulan. From the legend and also the film, Mulan is a heroine who joins an all-male army to fight for her country. Instead of seeing her father being taken away to war, in which he is most likely to die in because of his age, Mulan disguises as a man to enter the army on behalf of her family. The story is about the troubles and hardships that Mulan overcomes during her stay in the army and her critical role in defeating the enemy. Mulan is often viewed as a feminist movie that encourages development and inner strength of women.

     The movie Mulan features mainly only people of Asian descent, compared to other Disney movies that show a mixture of different ethnic groups. Mulan, however, is still portraying the racial stereotypes that we indulge in. The physical portrayals of the characters in Mulan show how the American society thinks of a typical Asian person. Further, there is an underlying tone of disrespect for the Asian traditions shown in the movie. Their old ways of keeping to a strict patriarchal society is dismissed as being trivial and unnecessary, even damaging. These portrayals of Asian American physical appearance as well as opinion on the traditions of Asian culture are mainly based on White society's view.