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[kattahj]

Okay, so there are posts on Racebending talking about how Disney's new project Frozen seems to be all about white people, which is a fair point, and posts talking about how the promo images are bastardizing Saami culture, which is another fair point, and then there's the comment over here claiming that the Saami aren't white, which... what

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[sarcasticwriter]

Here's something for your noodle - most folk in America assume Antonio Banderas to be Latino, which is to say, explicitly not "white."

I have half a mind to start a counter-website protesting that the snow queen has a white motif; white hair, white skin, dresses in white, her palace is white, etc. She's evil! White = evil! Disney is saying anything white is evil!

*eye roll*

The more important question is, how the hell did The Snow Queen get adapted into a comedy adventure version of the first half of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe?

Dear god, I love The Snow Queen. I'm already mourning for the movie it could have been. :(

[kattahj]

Here's something for your noodle - most folk in America assume Antonio Banderas to be Latino, which is to say, explicitly not "white."

Well, I've seen people assume that Martin Sheen is Latino too, but as I understand the categories, Spanish people from Spain count as white regardless of what they look like.

Please don't start any counter-websites. I think it's fair to want more non-white people in Disney films, it was just the particulars that tripped me up in this one, since they could have made the characters look explicitly Saami and it still wouldn't read to the audience as anything but white. (You know who's part Saami? Renee Zellweger.)

Apparently there's a Russian Snow Queen coming out as well. Maybe that would be more to your liking?

[sarcasticwriter]

I was kidding about the counter-website.

Well, I've seen people assume that Martin Sheen is Latino too, but as I understand the categories, Spanish people from Spain count as white regardless of what they look like.

We can agree that's completely nuts though, right? Race is about skin tone, unless the person is born in a European country, in which case they're white? Except for white-appearing oppressed indigenous people of European countries who are not white?

[kattahj]

It's certainly very confusing!