Recently, I went to Disneyland for the first time. When I went, it was decorated for the Christmas holidays featuring a beautiful tree and lots of other little decorations scattered throughout the park. Disneyland is a really interesting place for this blog, as all of the workers must be held to a certain decorum that matches the rest of the park. They are all known as "cast members" and everyone is in some sort of costume, even the janitors and food vendors. This matches the whole magical theme of Disneyland, because the entire place seems magical. Each land you walk into is full of rides, shops, food vendors, walk throughs, and decorations to make the entire place seem like you are in a dream. Everyone in the park is happy, as it is known as "the happiest place on Earth". This rings right in with the ethos, as you walk into the Disneyland park and it seems like everyone is overly thrilled to be there, giving the park the credibility to claim that they are indeed the happiest place on Earth.
When in Disneyland, you must be happy. I think this is particularly important for keeping all the little kids there happy. When kids come to Disneyland, they expect they are going to the happiest place on Earth. They see all of these characters from their favorite movies, experience their favorite movies through rides and ride-a-longs, and think that this entire magical land is a real place where all of the dreams from Disney movies come true. Staying happy is incredibly important to keeping this dream alive, because while the little kids might be entranced by everything around them, if they notice unhappy people, it might break the dreamlike state they are experiencing.
Honestly, the entire feeling of Disneyland makes everyone happy. Disney persuades people to be happy with overly friendly staff, people making you smile for pictures everywhere you go, things like fastpasses so you don't have to wait in line as long, goofy decorations that make it so you can't help but laugh, and even bringing adults back to their childhood memories. My dad for example, is one of the most manly men I know, he spends his whole life outdoors skiing and biking and shooting guns, he even played football for Oregon; however, if you ask him if he wants to go to Disney, he is always game, and when he is there, he seems so incredibly happy to be there. Disneyland seems to bring out the best in people, making everyone happy through their persuasive decorum and particular ethos that surrounds the entire park.
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