http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-z4RmInRtw&feature=related
Jasmine hiding her purse. HAHA
Once you go black princess...you never go back...princess. Uhuhuhuhuh.
My dream is to die thinking, "Wow, that was fun. I'm tired."
They'd get in trouble with someone else.
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LOL that hilarious!!!!
shareWhy would Jasmine hide her purse? She's ethnic too.
And where are the blonde bimbos, Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty? They'd surely be less accepting of Tiana than Jasmine and Mulan, the latter of whom have presumably experienced racism, or even Belle who's supposed to be intelligent and cultured.
Jasmine and Mulan were not minorities in their country so being ethnic themselves doesn't matter. Jasmine grabbing her purse was probably to emphasize the ghetto "black people will steal from me" stereotype. The skit was about what if the princesses were racists not that they are racist.
Belle likes too read but that doesn't equal intelligent and cultured. It means she can read. We see her reading romance adventures, not exactly high brow. She lives in a tiny little town and has no formal education. Who knows if she has seen a black person. I never got the impression that she was cultured or wordly.
I think it is a little unfair to call Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty "blonde bimbos". Is there something I am missing? Also there is no guarantee they'd be less accepting.
What does being a literal minority in one's country matter? Black South Africans far outnumber white South Africans, but they still suffered extreme discrimination under one of the most racist governments of the 20th century. And white people will eventually be a minority in the USA, but that doesn't reverse the legacy of 400 years of slavery.
Anyway, where does the sketch take place, because if it's in New Orleans Jasmine and Mulan will be literal minorities amongst a Eurocentric society, as Tiana is.
And isn't it implied in 'Beauty and the Beast' that Belle is an intelligent woman, and moreover one who doesn't let the Beast's features dictate her assessment of his true character? Surely those people who are capable of seeing the true value of a person's inner character are also the type of people who won't recoil at being introduced to someone of a different race.
Contrast Belle's experience with that of Cinderella who lives in a world in which one really can 'judge a book by its cover', where the Ugly Sisters truly are ugly people. I know racism isn't the same as lookism, and to conflate the two would be offensive to many but the point is not about attractiveness per se (clearly Tiana is one of the most physically, and spiritually, beautiful characters in Disney Animated history) but about judging those who look different to oneself.
Arguably Sleeping Beauty is even more sheltered from the world at large than Belle, who at least has experience embracing those who are 'different' to the majority within a society, since Aurora spent most of her early life in a secluded cottage.
And the fact is, it is the blonde blue-eyed 'ideal' (i.e. Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty, and Charlotte La Bouff, who was originally conceived as a minor, racist, antagonist before Disney got cold feet about dealing with such themes head-on) that is often celebrated by racists of the type who would despise Tiana. Asians of Middle Eastern or Oriental origins, like Jasmine and Mulan, would be barely more embraced.
I think you read far too much in to a funny little skit. I do not wish to speak elaborately about a little skit. Anything that ends with "once you black princess you don't go back princess" is not meant to be a serious social commentary, representing accurate historical facts and/or attitudes.
No clue how anyone can view it as more that a funny skit is beyond me. If you really take it seriously (and weren't being ironic when you sent that long post as if the skit is something to discuss in detail) then we are done. Have a nice day.
Good humour works on identification. If the scenario presented to us seems plausible then the inherent humour has more edge. Thus, this sketch would have been even funnier had Jasmin and Mulan been replaced with two white Disney Princesses.
shareAfraid I still personally disagree. I found it funny.
shareDo people think it's impossible for people who aren't white to be racist against blacks, or even each other?
Plus, this sketch wasn't very funny for other reasons.
This one was always funnier to me, tbh: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_jn9aGl5DQ
No, I have seen non-white people behave in a racist way towards people of African-Caribbean heritage. However, by-and-large, it would have made much more sense for the racist princesses in this sketch to have been white rather than members of other minority groups that have experienced their own share of racism/prejudice, especially in the West.
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