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What's something you used to like as a kid that you now, as an adult, realize had some pretty fucked up messaging? (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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For me it's Dragon Ball Z, that was a pretty fucked up show tbh.

Like holy shit, all the characters are terrible people except maybe Gohan and Trunks.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

I may be missrememberig but shouldnt aladdin be from china? Isnt the only middle eastern guy the wizard, because in the tropes the evil wizard is persian, maybe the djin is also middle eastern?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's sort of a medley of the middle east, India, and central Asia. Very 19th century orientalism.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

The original story takes place in China, but I think I've heard that it's used by the creators as a shorthand for a faraway, unknown place. The Disney movie was originally set in Baghdad but it was changed to a fictional country. Still pretty awful either way, with all the inaccurate stuff drawn from countries outside of the Middle East on top of the racism.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

The story comes from the north west part of China. Yes, that part. Same as Mulan though actually.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You would think that. Because they are muslim. And he marries a petty kings daugther insted of the emperors daugther.

But there are muslims all over china and there were even more before an lushans revelion. i always figured they were raiding zhou zhengs mausoleum and as such it would be set in shaanxi.

Wich put things in perspective whoever was the original owner of the main djin built a great empire, and while aladin also becomes king his ambitions seem more reduced.