The reality is that at least as a North American, nobody even knows it is an Italian story. We all know Pinocchio from our childhood. Nobody knows it’s Italian.
So watching a Disney movie, I’m not watching an Italian movie featuring an Italian story, just watching Disney.
I’m watching a common fable. And in that case, I really don’t see why everyone HAS to be white.
Not asking to change the original Italian book here. But the reality of Disney as a global storyteller is that it became a lot more than an Italian story.
> The reality is that at least as a North American, nobody even knows it is an Italian story. We all know Pinocchio from our childhood. Nobody knows it’s Italian.
Yep, that is the problem.
USA is both pushing diversity and inclusiveness everywhere they can, while also using other cultures because "they don't know where things come from"
Which is cultural appropriation according to modern standards and it's neither inclusive nor helps diversity, it actually crushes it and make all the debates about recognizing the cultural differences as they exists look like white people complaining over minutia, or, even worse, racists that do not want women of color in movies or shows.
When It's actually the opposite, I want to see black people stories, not just black people participating in white people stories where they are not originally mentioned.
> The reality is that at least as a North American, nobody even knows it is an Italian story. We all know Pinocchio from our childhood. Nobody knows it’s Italian.
I love the contrast between being woke ("Be inclusive and represent all people") and being woke ("Taking another cultures history and erasing the cultural aspects of it, making it all white, is bad") on display here.
Saying you didn't know that Pinocchio (!!) was set in Italy (!!!) is like saying you didn't know the first half of the Little Mermaid was set underwater.
What did you intend this statement to contribute?