What did you intend this statement to contribute?
So watching a Disney movie, I’m not watching an Italian movie featuring an Italian story, just watching Disney.
I’m watching a common fable. And in that case, I really don’t see why everyone HAS to be white.
Not asking to change the original Italian book here. But the reality of Disney as a global storyteller is that it became a lot more than an Italian story.
Yep, that is the problem.
USA is both pushing diversity and inclusiveness everywhere they can, while also using other cultures because "they don't know where things come from"
Which is cultural appropriation according to modern standards and it's neither inclusive nor helps diversity, it actually crushes it and make all the debates about recognizing the cultural differences as they exists look like white people complaining over minutia, or, even worse, racists that do not want women of color in movies or shows.
When It's actually the opposite, I want to see black people stories, not just black people participating in white people stories where they are not originally mentioned.
I love the contrast between being woke ("Be inclusive and represent all people") and being woke ("Taking another cultures history and erasing the cultural aspects of it, making it all white, is bad") on display here.
But Disney is not making culture, they are making entertainment for making money.
Tolkien is culture, Amazon's rings of power is not.
EDIT: sorry, misread your comment, no, not only in European cultures, it's consistent across the cultures throughout history.
White is the light, first men loved light and hated dark, in darkness lure grave dangers.
For example in African mythologies fairies are white too, pearl white to be precise.
Funny. Culture is almost everything. If we like it or not, if it's high or low culture, that's a huge discussion. But for sure the TV series is culture.
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Cool link! True, the association with light is strong, universally.
Actually, there was also the social class factor in any culture where tanning is highly visible: aristocrats vs everyone else, who had to work outside. No tan = upper class.
Fair enough, point taken.
I should have phrased it better.
Let's put it this way: Tolkien was an intellectual and a Linguistic Professor, his works have cultural relevance, he was trying to write the new British mythology from the POV of a scholar, he wasn't thinking about writing a best seller to get rich.
Conversely, I love the Terminator, but Terminator has no cultural relevance, it is popular culture or pop culture, it lives among us, yes, but the reason why it exists is entertaining people that go to the movies.
In European and European derived culture...