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Black Ariel Makes Perfect Sense (spoilers)


There were seven sisters who represent the seven seas. Each daughter represents a different sea around the world, therefore they were all racially diverse like their regions. The regions are fictitious, but are loosely based on reality.
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Ariel represents the "Caribbean" region and the film takes place there.

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Then why doesn’t Ariel have a Caribbean accent? Also it looks like a mop on her head, this is a huge plot hole.

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HOW DO PICK UP A CARIBBEAN ACCENT FROM UNDER THE SEA?

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Ariel constantly pops her head out of the water and eavesdrops on the humans, it makes zero sense that her father is of Spaniard descent.

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LMAO...NO.

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No less sense than if he were a WASP.

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HOW DO PICK UP A CARIBBEAN ACCENT FROM UNDER THE SEA?


The same way Sebastian did.

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OH!...FROM THE ANIMATORS.

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Actually both versions of the movie use an American actor faking an accent for the part. So it’s very much intentional.

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That's a stupid question. Accents aren't genetic. They're acquired from family and other people around you.

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This is wrong. Babies are born speaking with a Caribbean accent. If you don’t believe me, look up the article on Wikipedia about David Duchovny.

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David doesn't have a Carribbean accent.

BTW, crabs don't talk at all.

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This is also wrong.

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You believe in talking crabs with Carribbean accents?

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I absolutely do, because I’ve seen them.

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That's strong weed you've been smoking!

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The only benefit of living in California is the strong weed, lemme tell ya.

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Strong weed stinks.

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That’s why you eat it instead of smoke it.

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The mop is what gives her buoyancy.

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The indigenous peoples of the Caribbean included the Taíno of the northern Lesser Antilles, most of the Greater Antilles and the Bahamas, the Kalinago of the Lesser Antilles, the Ciguayo and Macorix of parts of Hispaniola, and the Guanahatabey of western Cuba.

Blacks are not indigenous to the Caribbean.

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Bravo!

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Hopely Keelai will respond. ;-)

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Ouch! Reality hurts!

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"Caribbean" in quotes. Ariel represents the Carinae Sea which is mythological = doesn't exist. FYI, neither do mermaids.

1880s Carinae demographics: racially-mixed black, white & Indigenous Carinae peoples. No slavery. No racism.

1880s demographics also applies to her sister, Perla who represents the Piton Sea (South America). She is Hispanic, Indigenous and white.

Seriously MCguy, this fantasy movie is targeted toward 7-year-old little girls who only want to watch a pretty mermaid princess fall in love with a handsome prince and live happily ever after.

I'm not on your Marvel boards tearing apart your fantasy stories about men flying around without wings, becoming demi-Spider or becoming muscular and green when they become angry. Let the little girls have their fantasy stories in peace and I won't wander on the superhero boards mocking how infantile all the incel, manbabies are for watching dopey kiddie films at their age.

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You're right. that all makes sense.

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thank you, and well said

some of these people take it way too seriously, when ultimately it's a little girl's fairytale.

I don't understand the uproar of whiners around this movie at all

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Because you have “zero” standards, that’s why. I bet you never even watched the movie, did ya.

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no I didn't, because I'm not an 8 year old girl so it doesn't appeal to me at all.

honestly if it weren't for all the race obsessed crybabies whining about it I'd never have even heard of it, it's not the kind of film that typically winds up on my radar at all.

unfortunately though it's constantly on the front page because of whiney pedophiles like you being so into it

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So you’re an ignorant moron who has no idea what he’s talking about, got it.

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Just a quick look at your past replies shows a long history of your starting trouble, trolling MC posters and making racist comments. Seek help!

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Your shtick of defending movies with wokeness and forced diversity has gotten tiresome.

Judging by your 30,000 posts you’re probably on welfare and jealous of the white man. That would explain your pathetic behavior around these parts.

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Your shtick of attacking movies with diversity is tiresome.

Judging by your 30,000 sock accounts you’re probably on welfare and you're a bitter misanthrope. That would explain your pathetic behavior around these parts.

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"I know you are but what am I"

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that might make some sense if I was commenting on the content of the film, rather than on the horde of fools crying over the casting choice.

but I shouldn't be surprised when someone as idiotic as you misses the obvious I guess. simply being able to type a response is probably pushing your mental capacity to the max, having that response make sense is obviously totally out of reach

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Says the idiot who’s hanging around a message board for a film he hasn’t even watched lol.

Your panties are all twisted because 8 year old girls don’t like a movie with a black mermaid. Does this keep you awake at night?

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hanging around? did it ever occur to your teeny tiny brain that maybe it popped up on the front page and I didn't search for it? just more proof that you're incapable of any real thought or reasoning

the only good things about people as dumb as you is that you aren't capable of subtlety, so it makes it really easy to add you to the ignore list so thankfully I won't have to read your piss poor attempts at wit anymore

unfortunately there are so many low iq morons here just like you it's a full time job just to block them all out

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"Says the idiot who’s hanging around a message board for a film he hasn’t even watched lol."

👏👏👏MiguelGordon is a freaking liar

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Why was this account deleted? Keelai has said MUCH worse.

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If we are in a fictional world, then no skin colour makes more sense over the other unless the original author already specified it. And whoops, he did, it was white.

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He's not the original author.

Furthermore, in 1989 Disney drastically changed the story from Hans version, but you don't complain about that. Disney changed the story again in 2023, but only her skin color bothers you.

You're a racist.

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Triton is what every man's man aspires to. Getting tail all around the globe.

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The seven seas are as follows:

The Persian Gulf ("Sea of Fars")
The Arabian Sea ("Sea of Larwi")
The Bay of Bengal ("Sea of Harkand")
The Strait of Malacca ("Sea of Kalah")
The Singapore Strait ("Sea of Salahit")
The Gulf of Thailand ("Sea of Kadranj")
The South China Sea ("Sea of Sanji")

Altrough more recent historical revisionism tries to imply the seven seas refer to oceans, but there arent enough oceans so they make up some.

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That's not in this movie. Did you see the movie?

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