Soundwave said:
JRPGfan said:
Also the Little mermaid was based on the faerie tale, by H.C Anderson (1805-1875). A danish writer.
orignal text had stuff like :
"They were six beautiful children; but the youngest was the prettiest of them all; her skin was as clear and delicate as a rose-leaf, and her eyes as blue as the deepest sea; but, like all the others, she had no feet, and her body ended in a fish's tail."
Also depictions of mermaids from sailors thoughout time.... basically always depicted them as being fair skinned.
Having a person of colour play the arial, was like "black washing" (if white washing is a term?) a white role.
Also because of the cartoon, if you google Arial, 99% of what shows up is from the cartoon (which is the most popular, searched for item with arial).
Kids grew up on it. Thus everyones "idea" of her, is what the cartoon movie shows.
This is what most people think, when they think arial:
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Who gives a shit. Does every James Bond look exactly the same? There's nothing wrong with Disney wanting to make like the 4th or 5th Little Mermaid movie they've made a bit different. Brad Pitt's character here is supposed to be Asian in the book. I don't recall any big outcry or whining about this: 
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I think the lack of outcry for the bullet train race swap can easily be explained by the low popularity of the book/movie. You even had to write "Brad Pitt's character", because nobody knows who "Ladybug" is. Everybod knows who Ariel is and how she looks.
If the general population was aware about Ladybug on the same level is it is aware about Ariel, the shitstorm would have been much worse.
