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Guys, this is getting creepy. Can we talk about cannibalism instead?
no i mean modern indiamost of the time they meet and liek each other I dunno maybe im talking out my assforget i said anythinghides
Quote from: kefkaownsall on January 12, 2014, 10:11:34 amMulan II had an anti movie and it was awful and most people in India are quite happy so maybe they could pull it off?...It's a straight to DVD Disney sequel. Of course it's going to be shite.Not to mention, the idea that someone else has the right to decide who you marry is infinitely more repugnant than anything in any existing Disney movie. It makes the usual damsel in distress of the original Disney films seem outright progressive in comparison.
Mulan II had an anti movie and it was awful and most people in India are quite happy so maybe they could pull it off?
Quote from: Art Vandelay on January 12, 2014, 10:20:38 amQuote from: kefkaownsall on January 12, 2014, 10:11:34 amMulan II had an anti movie and it was awful and most people in India are quite happy so maybe they could pull it off?...It's a straight to DVD Disney sequel. Of course it's going to be shite.Not to mention, the idea that someone else has the right to decide who you marry is infinitely more repugnant than anything in any existing Disney movie. It makes the usual damsel in distress of the original Disney films seem outright progressive in comparison.Be fair. Mulan II was a LOT better than many other direct-to-video sequels *coughcoughReturnOfJafarcoughcough* and, up to the deus ex ending, makes sense as a sequel. The real problem was that the writers couldn't figure out a way out of the sad ending they'd set up.
Quote from: gyeonghwa on January 11, 2014, 08:19:11 pmQuote from: TheL on January 11, 2014, 11:42:02 amIt's not about racism per se; it's about the fact that very few Disney films star POC. When kids have over 100 films to choose from, and only 12 of them star people who aren't white, it can feel like "I'm not normal because I don't look like those people."I had that same feeling with Barbie as a kid. I felt like my brown hair and eyes were "ugly" because they didn't look ike my dolls.This is more of the primary concern. To me the problem is that Disney (perhaps unwittingly) thinks that a character of color cannot find sympathy among American audience, despite the fact that America's demographic is shifting away from the WASP arch-type. I'm fine with the lead in Frozen being white, but you could add some color too. To their credit, I think Disney tried to do that with The Princess and the Frog, but unfortunately it was in a medium that isn't copping well with the 3D fad.This is my opinion on the whole Frozen fiasco. As for Sami being POC, well, that's a bit hard to prove considering that real Sami people come in a fairly wide variety of physical appearances. I also think it's a very US-centric view of race and racism, since racism works a bit differently in Europe. People who are considered "white" in America (such as Irish Travelers) are not be considered "white" (or the closest thing they have to "white") in Europe. You do not have to be part of an American-defined racial minority in order to be subjected to ethnic discrimination, whether in America or anywhere else (though from what I've read it does seem much more extreme in Europe than in the US).
Quote from: TheL on January 11, 2014, 11:42:02 amIt's not about racism per se; it's about the fact that very few Disney films star POC. When kids have over 100 films to choose from, and only 12 of them star people who aren't white, it can feel like "I'm not normal because I don't look like those people."I had that same feeling with Barbie as a kid. I felt like my brown hair and eyes were "ugly" because they didn't look ike my dolls.This is more of the primary concern. To me the problem is that Disney (perhaps unwittingly) thinks that a character of color cannot find sympathy among American audience, despite the fact that America's demographic is shifting away from the WASP arch-type. I'm fine with the lead in Frozen being white, but you could add some color too. To their credit, I think Disney tried to do that with The Princess and the Frog, but unfortunately it was in a medium that isn't copping well with the 3D fad.
It's not about racism per se; it's about the fact that very few Disney films star POC. When kids have over 100 films to choose from, and only 12 of them star people who aren't white, it can feel like "I'm not normal because I don't look like those people."I had that same feeling with Barbie as a kid. I felt like my brown hair and eyes were "ugly" because they didn't look ike my dolls.
That may be the single gayest thing I have ever read on this board. Or the old one.
Racialization is something people don't understand is also cultural relative. They also don't understand that being indigenous does not mean "not white".
QuoteRacialization is something people don't understand is also cultural relative. They also don't understand that being indigenous does not mean "not white".It's kind of hilarious when people try to paint "the natives" as being universally brown-skinned. Where the hell did they think white people came from? Did they just get teleported in by a bunch of really racist aliens?
The USA's (to at least US Tumblr users) way of simplifying racism down to skin colour always makes me laugh.