kingsindbad: meniwishexisted: allthecolorsofdisney: allthecolorsofdisney: During Frozen, Kristo
kingsindbad: meniwishexisted: allthecolorsofdisney: allthecolorsofdisney: During Frozen, Kristoff is seen wearing Sami clothes and practicing a typically Sami occupation - being a handyman with a trained reindeer (although in real life, you can’t ride reindeer like a horse). In line with this depiction, this is what Kristoff should look like adhering to what Sami looked like during the 1800s. Tan, with an Asian eyefold and black hair - because surprise! The Sami weren’t originally white! The only reason you end up with a bunch of white people when you google them is because they went through years of racial assimilation! So there. This is what Kristoff could have been - Disney’s first male POC love interest to end up with a non-POC woman (the other way around has been done a lot, but not this.. for some reason..) Hey everyone! After doing some further research, I do need to point out a few incorrect points in this post! Marking the Sami as explicitly POC is culturally unwise. In Scandinavia, there was originally no such distinction, although there have been attempts to racially differentiate the Sami from “regular” Scandinavians to justify racist policies. This is because Sami vary greatly in appearance all through Scandinavia. The dark-skinned variety of Sami I am depicting in my manipulation of Kristoff above would only be commonplace in the northernmost parts of Scandinavia. (Coincidentally, that *is* where I believe Frozen takes place, due to the very Norwegian architecture and northern landscape.) Although the Sami have been subject to racial assimilation, “white-passing” Sami have existed since at least the 1860s and possibly before. This may be due to centuries of intermarriage with non-Sami, and aided by the fact that Sami share European blood lines with regular Scandinavians. In conclusion, the Sami aren’t one race or the other. But Sami looking like Kristoff above did exist and were more widespread in the 1800s then now, and this would have been the average look for a Sami in northern Norway by that time. Also, I should have referred to his eyes as an epicanthic fold, not an “Asian eyefold”, since this kind of eyes also appears among Africans, Native Americans and Celtics - aka white people. In the Sami though, their epicanthic eyefold seems identical to those of the Inuit. Reblogging in a probably futile attempt to have people see the OPs corrections and additional comments (since the original is the one getting distributed more). There are also some interesting links about the Sami on this thread of reblogs. And check out this collection of old Sami photos. Frozen is kind of a tough one, there are a lot of positives about it (yay story about sisters! yay that those sisters are never romantic rivals! yay for Anna and Kristoff’s relationship being based on friendship and respect! yay for the “act of true love” having nothing to do with a man!). But at the same time the original story was full of female characters and pretty much all but two were dropped. And of course the almost complete lack of diversity, made worse by the fact that it’s following Tangled and Brave (both good movies but also both very white). I may like Frozen a lot but I don’t want to ignore or dismiss it’s negative aspects. the epicanthic fold is common among a lot of people in Denmark… good things and bad things pointed out so now we can work to see more of the good and work on changing the bad. that is the point of these things: to make things better, not to blindly love something and continue allowing the problems to persist just because you think they don’t affect you. that’s messed up. lets not. -- source link
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