Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-1916997-20170601234635/@comment-1916997-20170712053730

Maliahtate wrote: CoolDudeAl wrote: Zalvukalic wrote: CoolDudeAl wrote: Maliahtate wrote: CoolDudeAl wrote: Maliahtate wrote: CoolDudeAl wrote: Eskaver wrote: Given that Rapunzel and many others are proof that Once doesn't simply cast Fairytales by race/ethnicity, I will likely go with it being anything. While this is true, Once does keep characters that are non-white in the source material, that race. Mulan is Asian; Aladdin, Jasmine, and Jafar are Arab, Nemo is Arab/Indian, etc. So I don't think we can rule out the fact that Lucy's mom may be from a Latin American story, or at least stories associated with Latin America (like the Fountain of Youth) won't come into play. Aladdin and Jasmine weren't played by Arab people. And don't tell me that they "look" the same because that's exteremly offensive. Not all Brown people look the same. Deniz is Turkish, I would consider that Arab, or at least Middle Eastern. Karen is not Arab or Middle Eastern, per say, but has multiple eithnic backgrounds including Chinese, Indian, and Jewish. So overall, for a fictional area, based around a Middle Eastern country, I think they are cast pretty well. As an Arab and Middle Eastern myself, I'm telling you that their casting was terrible. Sure, they look Arab, and perhaps some people consider them to be exactly that. Turkey isn't Middle Eastern at all. We have different languages and cultures. As for Karen's casting, people often mistake Indian people to be Middle Eastern which they are not. I'm telling you again, we are two entirely different ethnicities. Though, maybe they didn't find any good actors and actresses for the roles of Jasmine and Aladdin with their same races and ethnicities so they took the easy way. Don't mistake this for a fight, I understand that this is no place for fighting, but I'm just trying to tell you a little more about my ethnicity and that of course I wanted to be respected and represented well on a show such as Once. While I get this, you have to realize when casting that you go more for a general region, than a specific country. Europe has many languages and cultures, but for the most part, any white person can play a character from any part, from Norway to Greece, from Spain to Russia. Furthurmore, Fairy Tale Land is not actually a real place, so it is entirely possible Argrabah is a mixture of Turkey, India, and the Middle Eastern countries. It is a mixture of those for sure yes, and if you put Turkey and Middle east in the same pot, even though they're quite different, they're both muslim and kinda close, not really close but kind of, so OK. But India, that's very different, they have their own religion, language and all that stuff, but as you said Agrabah is vide and it represents south and southwest Asia so yes. And Jafar isn't from the same part of Agrabah like Jasmine and Aladdin ae, so that may explain it  But wouldn't you see the difference between a spannish person with almost latino skin, and a blonde, pale swed. Yes, I do see a difference between those, but casting calls often don't, they may just ask for a white or caucasian male, which is my point. And yes, India is more different than from the Middle East than Turkey is. I think the thing that makes the most sense is to say the Agrabahn region is a large area that covers the LWM's cultures from Turkey to India (which would include the Middle East) geographicly. I understand your point, and it may be true that Agrabah does have all these countries. But we're talking about Jasmine and Aladdin specifically here. They are both Arab. It depends which version of the story you are talking about actually. In the traditional story, Aladdin is actually Chinese.