Board Thread:Off-Topic Fun/@comment-5367821-20130209055547/@comment-6195464-20130210214249

There's a difference between intergration based on the acting quality, and just doing it for the heck of it, or because it's politically correct (which is the implication of racial diversity). Roger and Hamerstein was diverse... but it was also ridiculous. How did Whoopi Goldberg, who is black and Victor Garber, a white man produce Paolo Montalbán, a Filipino child? How was only -one- of Bernadette Peter's two daughters black? It becomes comical and almost insulting to other races when there's too much effort to "Include everyone". I agree that they should base casting off of talent. It should never be about race... it should be about quality, but that doesn't mean going with Disney's view of the characters is wrong, simply because they aren't diverse enough. A red-headed Ariel is recognizable to people. There's plenty of other characters to incorporate - including original, non-fairytale/Disney characters - to broaden the diversity, without changing the characters we already know and recognize.