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[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 40 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Can I be upset at all of them? The little mermaid should probably be ~~Dutch~~ Danish, and all the rest should be their canon ethnicities. White Disney princesses don't bother me because most of those stories are European folktales, but that cuts both ways.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 31 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Isn't she a fucking mermaid who comes from the ocean? Why should she be any real nationality/ethnicity?

[–] nightofmichelinstars@sopuli.xyz 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Oddly enough, the Harry Potter franchise handled this well.

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 months ago

I could be convinced that mermaids should have dark backs and light bellies

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 months ago

Her ethnicity should be Innsmouth.

[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 3 months ago

Trace her back to her origins, and she's literally based on a Danish folktale. I can guarantee you no one in Denmark when the story first was told was thinking of her as black.

But then I think all of those examples were bad and should never have been cast that way. A black Anne Boleyn is exactly as bad a choice as a white Mansa Musa, for example.

[–] Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Dutch not Danish?

[–] Nounka@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Danish would be my guess

[–] Iceblade02@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Yeah it'd be a similar reaction if Jasmine & Aladdin were recast as northern Europeans. Sure it's a fantasy tale, but the story is set in a fantasy version of Arabia.