Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-1916997-20170601234635/@comment-1916997-20170710201508

Zalvukalic 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. Turkish isn't arab, for the whole history they haid their own empire, which was based in Constantinople and not somewhere in Middle east. They are muslim and have quite similar skin tone, I mean they did have some parts of the ottoman empire in the middle east, but not Saudi Arabia itself. Well, but it really doesn't matter they may be based on Fairytale characters but they're stil somewhat changed. The people have been fighting over land in that region for the last 2,000+ years. Some cross breeding of people was bound to have happened.