Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-1916997-20170601234635/@comment-1916997-20170602191435

LeonKingg wrote: CoolDudeAl wrote: LeonKingg 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. I agreed that these non-white characters were played by non-white ones but I disagreed in some way. Aladdin is an Arab (Disney version and possibly original fairy tale because of his name) but he was played by a Turkish actor (has nothing with Arab people). Jasmine was played by an Indian/Chinese/Jew, again these ethnicities are not Arab. Mulan was played by a Korean actress. Only new Jafar (not old Jafar) makes sense since Oded Fehr has Middle Eastern ancestors (Iraqi folks) despite being an Israeli. As for Nemo, he was played by a Pakistani actor, Pakistan was part of British Raj at the time of 2000 Leagues Under the Sea, however, the birthplace of Nemo wasn't in Modern-Day Pakistan but the middle of the Modern-Day India making his ethnicity different (Pakistanis and Indians are not same people, by the way.) So OUAT doesn't care about ethnicity as long as it thinks whatever people supposed to look like is fine. Turkish, Indian, and Arab are all similar, they are all Asian. Besides that, Turkey and the "Middle East" were all part of multiple empires, such as the Ottoman Empire and the Persian Empire. India is a bit more removed, but they still had plenty of cross pollinating with the Arabs. Korean and Chinese are both far east Asian, which again, is similar. Point is, your not going to find people who are perfectly one race/country, because they never existed to begin with. People always bred with other people in the regions, and since globalization happened, everyone is probably technically mixed race anyway. They all are not similar each other, I can go deeper to explains why. I didn't say that there are perfectly pure-blooded people but Turkish, Arab and Indian are not same people at all, nor they share same facial feature, bloodline, culture, languages and history. They are like the difference between Europeans, Africans and Far Asians in comparison. Persians and North Indians are closest relatives to Europeans as they are the cousin. Please be aware that Persians and Arabs will be so furious if you claim they are similar. I suggest you read up Indo-European, Turkic and Semitic languages, it will explain a lot. Okay, but the thing is we are not talking about the real world locations anyway. Like what is Agrabah in FTL? I would argue it is a mix of Arab, Persian, and Indian areas. Just like Mulan's area is most likely a mix of far east Asian areas, EF is a mix of most European areas, Arenedelle is a mix of Nordic areas, etc. And it's not like we can go by language because (assumably) the entire FTL speaks modern day English. That's where this whole thing gets tricky. The world is loosely based on real world regions, but they are not exactly the same as the real world regions.