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In reply to the discussion: Maybe Don't Dress Your Kid Up As Moana This Halloween? [View all]Dorian Gray
(13,549 posts)It makes me think, of course.
But let me say the following (which maybe a bit long winded, but it's a real question. I want to think this through out loud.)
When Frozen was all the rage, hundreds of kids descended upon my neighborhood dressed as anna and elsa for halloween. I live in Brooklyn, so there is a mixed ethnic background in my neighborhood. Plenty of little Elsa's were not caucasian. She spoke to people of other backgrounds. Southeast Asian/African American/etc kids wore the dresses. On Halloween or just on a regular day because they loved her.
Wouldn't it be empowering for a culture to see that Tiana or Moana were beloved amongst the entire population as Elsa was? That kids everywhere want to emulate them and love them?
Or is that completely wrong thinking. We should leave them for Hawaiian or African American girls to emulate?