Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26184894-20150713122948/@comment-25926288-20150723205013

I'm pretty sure Affirmative action deals nothing with casting people in certain places. I'm pretty sure about that.

I will tell you why we only use fairytales and stuff popularized by Disney and Eurocentric ones. Because noone in the US knows anything else. I'm kidding, but it's true. I could go up to 100 people and ask who Anansi or The Monkey King are and most would have no clue. This is one of the main factors of adding diversity on the show, because otherwise we'd only see white blond people run around Storybrooke. I can even tell you myself I don't think I know any Native American fairytale.

AS I said before, characters in public domain and fairytales don't have a race or ethnicity unless specified. Snow White can't be African American because it defeats the whole White as Snow unless it is some sort of twist. But Ursula can be African American because Ursula is not an actual character besides an alternative name for the sea hag in the original fairytale.

I think Once is more unintentianlly racist before I think they cater to quotas and such.

Tales can be equivalent in many cultures. Cinderella is a story with many variations. There's the German one that's based of the French one, that's based of the Italian one. Then the theme ic carried and earlier seen in Egypt, China and other places.

So, Cinderella doesn't have to be Caucasian whatsoever. The same goes for the many others, plus they are public domain which means the runners of Once can make their characters whatever race they want.