A Palestinian friend once went on this mini rant about how Aladdin wasn’t even Middle-Eastern. Al Addin (according to the friend) means “The Easterner.” So Aladdin should have been Indian or Korean or something.
I mean, the origination of the story is a mess to begin with so of course it’s going to misrepresent things, this comment kinda goes into the details a bit - https://lemmy.world/comment/23310329
I feel like this kind of bullshit is a distraction from actual criticisms of the way the movie Aladdin depicts the Middle East.
"Where they cut off your ear
If they don’t like your face
It’s barbaric, but hey, it’s home."
For some reason they kept the “barbaric” part.
A Palestinian friend once went on this mini rant about how Aladdin wasn’t even Middle-Eastern. Al Addin (according to the friend) means “The Easterner.” So Aladdin should have been Indian or Korean or something.
TIL from comments here that Aladdin was originally set in China, so this is very plausible.
From my understanding Alladin is racist just in a really lazy way
I mean, the origination of the story is a mess to begin with so of course it’s going to misrepresent things, this comment kinda goes into the details a bit - https://lemmy.world/comment/23310329
Gotta eat to live, gotta steal to eat, otherwise we get along 🎵