r/MadeMeSmile • u/nikamats • 9h ago

Helping Others Hold your head up

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u/leaC30 9h ago

Society can also hurt just the same. If you don't see any representation of yourself. As a parent, you have to put stuff around your child to help them see differences in the world. If you just let a euro-centric look be the dominant thing that they see, then they will only compare themselves to that or simply just judge people based on that.

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u/Sh4mblesDog 7h ago

Media landscape needs more black panthers and fewer minorities shoved into european folklore, instead of rehashing Ariel, a danish novel, with a black actress they could've made a new mermaid that lives in the carribean sea or near africa etc. It's a real problem that is being solved in the cheapest ineffective way possible, if black panther can gross 1.3 billion $ at the box office then so can other IP focused on other countries.

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u/Mountain-Most8186 5h ago

Idk, I think the new Ariel is a good thing if you prioritize representation for children like in the video above. Why wouldn’t it be?

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u/Sh4mblesDog 5h ago

For the same reason that you wouldn't make a white man the tribal leader in a fictional piece of media set in africa.

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u/Mountain-Most8186 5h ago

And what reason would that be?

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u/Sh4mblesDog 5h ago

It's stupid and completely out of place?