Moana: portraying Māui, a revered Hawaiian (and Polynesian in general) cultural and religious figure as the comic relief.
Mulan: portraying the Dragon, a revered Chinese (and East Asian in general) cultural and religious figure as the comic relief.
Yeah, those are cute, lovable characters and totally not racist and culturally offensive, right? Imagine the outcry by the West if a Indigenous Hawaiian, or especially Chinese film portrayed Jesus in the same way.
I genuinely believe that the only thing that saved the Lion King from being just as racist if not more, is that there were no humans for them to make “jokes” about. And there were only a few humans in the Jungle Book, so same boat. Also they didn’t try to “”“adapt”“” a real folktale or other cultural thing from over there.
I mean, they still used mostly white voice actors for a story set in Africa and India respectively. Animal characters or not, don’t ya think there’s a problem with that?
Moana: portraying Māui, a revered Hawaiian (and Polynesian in general) cultural and religious figure as the comic relief.
Mulan: portraying the Dragon, a revered Chinese (and East Asian in general) cultural and religious figure as the comic relief.
Yeah, those are cute, lovable characters and totally not racist and culturally offensive, right? Imagine the outcry by the West if a Indigenous Hawaiian, or especially Chinese film portrayed Jesus in the same way.
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I genuinely believe that the only thing that saved the Lion King from being just as racist if not more, is that there were no humans for them to make “jokes” about. And there were only a few humans in the Jungle Book, so same boat. Also they didn’t try to “”“adapt”“” a real folktale or other cultural thing from over there.
I mean, they still used mostly white voice actors for a story set in Africa and India respectively. Animal characters or not, don’t ya think there’s a problem with that?
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