@@serenitysfireflyok this is going to make it so much worse but cookie run kingdom just released an Egyptian themed area and. Genshin please take character design notes I’m begging you
@@serenitysfirefly oh my god I forgot about that 💀 that game is my most embarrassing interest. Anyway no they were (from my very brief look) quite a lot better. By that I mean the people from the desert aren’t white
@@tamas5931 Night happens because the sun “goes down” (the earth rotates and wherever you are is no longer facing the sun). The question flipped the situation backwards, like asking why you’re really hot whenever you’re sweating. I appreciate the joke more thanks to OP pointing it out, it made me exhale sharply from my nostrils
@adroitws1367 Alladin specifically takes place in China because it is specifically stated that it takes place there. Also, 1001 nights does not tend to stay within Persia for some of its stories. Sinbad, for example, has him traveling around the seas and the only places that are close to Persia in that story is Baghdad and Basra and he only tends to be in those places and the beginnings and end of his voyages.
@@GraceThomas-fv5ky I know. I'm agreeing with you cuz I heard that too. I just find it funny how, if we heard correctly, he's possibly using being Welsh as evidence that he isn't white
I love the one guy looking at his own hands, like with everyone else you could think they thought they were one of the few Caucasian people in the kingdom or something, but with him it's like he never noticed what color his own skin was until someone pointed it out.
i mean yeah, a lot white kids join theater but "Theater culture" isn't exclusive in any way, atleast from what I've seen Though I do live in America so idk, where did you try to join theater?@@allyli1718
@@maxpackard1952 Katara is the only actress they cast that actually looks indigenous. Sokka's actor lied about being indigenous and even when it came to light he isn't, he kept the part. The actor for Kuruk is indigenous, but is very pale. If it was just like some of the water tribe actors, that would be one thing, but all of the important indigenous characters? It's become clear there was a very colorism bias in the casting where they were hiring the palest person in room. If they weren't, they would never even run into the issue of accidentally hiring a racist white man to play Sokka. His "native American tribe" is made up of white people claiming to be indigenous with zero proof they are and aren't an officially recognized tribe. A lot of Native American tribes have spoken up about them and have been ignored. Netflix doesn't actually care. They just want to pretend that they do.
@@thestrongestlivingcreature The water tribe is based on inuit culture and of their two main indigenous characters they cast, one is white and the one is mohawk which is not the indigenous culture the water tribe is even based off of. There are inuit actors out there and they aren't getting roles to play the characters based on their culture.
When I went to another school in the seventh grade, it had 700 students and 2 of them were black. I genuinely thought "wow this place is diverse", because the lower elementary school was 100% white.
@@RaptorFromWeegeethe progressive liberal where he/she sees racism everywhere, denounces muh colonialism but profits from it by using the superior technological advancements from said oppressors and is an insufferable slacktivist
@@brightblackhole2442 That's stretching it, they are probably all foreigners who learned all the songs completely phonetically and have no concept of English.
@@brightblackhole2442dare I say, they may have even been able to speak using their vocal cords, transmitting sound through vibrations in the air. Can’t say for certain, though.
Oh, that's easy to answer. Aladdin comes from Scheherazade's 1001 Nights. The story is written by a Sasanian Persian, using Sasanian Persian characters and the Sasanian Persians were Caucasians. The Caucus mountains are LITERALLY in the heart of the Sasanian Empire.
My dude, the Caucasus was on the edge of the Sasanian Empire. Though admittedly Caucasians aren't called that because they're literally from the Caucasus.
The only people who are actually Caucasian are those currently living there in the Caucasus mountains. The idea of a wider Caucasian race originated in a now very disproven theory of racial classification. The ancient Iranians, including the Sassanids, are the same people and look the same as the people who live in Iran in the modern day
@@347Jimmy Is it taken from the Chinese folk tale or did it simply come into existence while the other existed? There's a difference. Take mythology for example, a lot of different mythologies are quite similar across different regions in the world. They did not copy them, however. Certain things are just memetic to humans.
@@CanadianEhHole big reach there. It's quite well established that Antoine Galland added Alladin to 1001 Nights when he translated the book I'll take the his word about the story's origins over yours
Not really. If you go to most of the world, you'll find that everyone is the same ethnicity, not white, a different ethnicity. You wouldn't go to Kenya and ask "Why the hell is everyone black here?". You wouldn't go to India and ask why everyone is brown here. Ok, you get the idea. But when you see people being white, somehow that's a "problem" to you.
@@borginburkes1819I doubt that was their point. It's wild that literally everyone in America thinks of things within the terms of actual skin color rather than *ethnicity* as he clearly mentioned.
@@tormmac Not a complaint, just a QUESTION, you would know that if you weren’t such an ignorant blockheaded poopoo smeller! I oughta knock some sense into all you “WAAAHH ANTI-WHITE RACISM AND WHITE SELF HATRED!!” people, always trying to point out racism that isn’t there, like the boy that cried wolf, and WHYYYY do you do this? Because you see other people being actually oppressed, and your little child brain goes “NO FAIR!! I WANNA BE OPPRESSED TOO!” And so you cry racism! Self hatred! Again, and again, and again, and again, until one day, nobody listens to you, and when actual anti-white racists start stomping around, everybody will think you’re just crying wolf again
it's not about diversity, it's about white people playing characters that are supposed to have at least a couple of darker skinned arabs 😭😭 i will say that it would probably be lowkey unethical to have actual arabs play aladdin characters. when I was in middle school theater (very white except for me, the only asian kid. to this day, it was the only place ive ever participated in that had so little diversity, save for maybe the finance field and korean churches), i was cast to play the priest with the racist japanese accent in shrek. they only did it so they could avoid having someone do yellowface with the accent 😭😭😭. it was so racist to force the only asian kid to only have ONE speaking role and have that speaking role be the one with the racist accent, like COME ON now. you couldve just not had the racist accent priest, cast someone else, and just let them speak normally instead. similarly, aladdin is well known for having very orientalist stereotypes about arabs, especially in the way it portrays the outfits of jasmine, the guards cutting off people's hands, the good characters having more western features, and in this musical they even have harems💀💀💀The idea of forcing someone to go through what i went through is super unsound, which is why it was lowkey better for this more tongue and cheek approach of having a mostly white cast and irreverence for the source material. thus, this meta joke acts as an acknowledgement of the inaccuracy of skin color while also highlighting that in this case you're better off not worrying about the weird race inaccuracy because it would derail the show/lead to some uncomfortable racial caricature issues. take it up with disney, not Starkid productions.
@@Null_Experis it's a parody of the Disney Aladdin, and very specifically the Disney version. According to the Disney Aladdin, the story set in Agrabah, a bustling city in the Arabian Desert near the River Jordan. So if you have an issue with the location, your beef is with Disney. And in fact, that's part of the point of the whole production is making, because of Disney both whitewashing and also just getting things wrong.
Why is everyone in the kingdom white? Probably because persians, or as theyre known now, Iranians, are white. They're Caucasians, europeans are descended from them, they are white. Although, with their geographical location and frequent slave trade back then, the odds of there being no asians or africans is...minimal.
lol look up the Wikipedia article on Caucasian. It’s considered incorrect science XD It’s backed up with tons of references too at the bottom of the article if you want to do more research! Also Twisted is based off the movie Aladdin, not 1001 Nights, so it’s talking about the majority brown fictional animated country, Agrabah, not about Persia!
@@allyli1718 you realize that being Caucasian is a thing, right? As in, being from the Caucusus? Being of a genetic heritage native to Caucasia? Iranians and Persians are genetically a mixture of a lot of groups, which makes perfect sense for their geographical location, most largely groups like Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Turks, all groups considered white, many coming from Caucasia, groups Europeans are descended from. In summary. Europeans are directly descended from proto-iranians. They had continued and consistent extended contact with them throughout all of history. Continued genetic and cultural exchange through relations. Culturally competing with, but not dissimilar to, parts of Europe. Even by skin tone, the vast majority would be considered white with a tan, like a southern Italian. Do you wanna talk about haplotypes? Cause that just backs up europeans being descended from them even more. Agrabah is set in the Middle East despite visually being a mix of a few different cultures. It was originally meant to be Baghdad, Iraq, according to the creators. The Gulf War happened, and they had to change that. It seems to be a mix of Indian, Arab, and Persian. It's a coastal country that is seemingly set on the east coast due to its Indian influences, in a region formerly held by the Persians and later held by their successors.
@@DomR1997 never said that the concept didn’t exist. I agree that people are from there! But please have a look at the Wikipedia article to understand what I’m trying to say. The definition of white people as being from the Caucasus mountains is, and I quote, “an obsolete racial classification of humans based on a now-disproven theory of biological race.” So whatever points you have about Aladdin being Caucasians to me has no value because you’re using such a widely-accepted-to-be-outdated classification, so outdated that it’s the first sentence on the Wikipedia article for caucasians. It’s like saying that technically all of Britain and America should be considered barbarians because they’re not Romans-Rome doesn’t exist anymore! Technically you can call them the Roman definition of barbarians if you want to, but you’re being extremely outdated for doing so! XD
Today, Caucasian doesn't really mean people from the Caucasus anymore. It's more about people of European descent. That's why you wouldn't call an Indian 'Caucasian,' even if they're kind of in the same group. It's all about how or where the term is used, like in the US for example the Kalmyks, even though they're Mongolic, sometimes get called white just because they're from Russia
@@myst6387 Caucasian is used to mean people derived from those who migrated through the Caucasus if that's what you want to talk about, which would, in fact, be europeans. Caucasian is also the correct term for anyone from the Caucasus. I wouldn't call an Indian a Caucasian because they fit neither of these descriptions. No matter how you slice it, a large part of what's considered "white people" are descended from Iranians, from Mediterranean people to Eastern europeans to Central europeans. The definition of what's "white" changes depending on the culture and time you were raised in, of course, but by modern definitions, Iranians certainly fall within the parameters for "white" people.
nothing wrong with it, it's a morally neutral thing within a vaccuum, just like any other race. it is weird tho for a show meant to portray arabs tho (aladdin), but it's a disney parody so its not gonna be accurate anyway. just a funny thing to point out.
Cast it diversely and solve the problem OR Deliberately cast it without diversity to then joke about the lack thereof, appearing socially aware but perpetuating the same problem.
aladdin was highkey a racist movie anyway. i think there's a lot to be said about how uncomfortable it'd be to force real POC into stereotypical roles to grant the production legitimacy when, ostensibly, it's a bunch of middle eastern caricature tropes (ie orientalist harems, threatening to chop off hands, etc.) Like once I was an Asian kid who got cast to play the priest with the racist chinese accent 💀💀💀 you know FOR A FACT they only did it because Im Asian so that it wouldn't seem like yellow face. anyways, twisted is not really about that, it's more on the disney parody + class issues, so i excuse some lampshading (the name for acknowledging something but not doing anything about it) on the issue. im glad they had the self awareness to know not to address the issue poorly, though it would've probably still been better had they had more POC to advise Idk much about starkid nowadays, but i do hope that they incorporate more poc actors now tho 💀💀💀
@@van7915 Every nation on earth has no problem casting people of their own indigenous ethnicities into whatever stories they are inspired to tell, it's only the west where we are determined to obsess over the genetics of actors in a fictional tale
@@AnEnemySpy456 You mean the Sasanian Persian Empire? It most certainly was. You can make the argument that Aladdin himself was mixed, being a lower class, but the royalty of the Middle Persian empire had fair skin and blue eyes VERY VERY frequently.
@@lilpepperlilsalt Okay I know what Aladdin is but really I'm sorry I still don't understand, Aladdin wasn't about how much melanin the characters had in their skin or anything, it wasn't even brought up in the plot idk, it's just seems like a weird American thing.
@@bajsbrev4651Oh come on… Aladdin is a Middle East tale so of course no character should be white in this story! It’s not too important as you said but it’s autoderision and they are kind of breaking the fourth wall I think it’s very funny joke
It's a joke about the play taking place in Arabia and it being weird that everyone is white instead of arab. Like, are you just pretending you don't get it or are you just waiting for someone to say something so you can pretend to be a victim? Like you probably will after this reply.
I think you’re just insanely dumb like most people who complain about Americans but are from equally stupid countries. The joke is that it’s Aladdin and they’re supposed to be Arabians.
The leaked characters in genshin impact:
No fr
What even was Sumeru 😂
@@serenitysfireflyok this is going to make it so much worse but cookie run kingdom just released an Egyptian themed area and. Genshin please take character design notes I’m begging you
@@rattiesunderstars Did they make any Muslim historical figures white
Because that's where Genshin set the bar LMAO
@@serenitysfirefly oh my god I forgot about that 💀 that game is my most embarrassing interest. Anyway no they were (from my very brief look) quite a lot better. By that I mean the people from the desert aren’t white
@@rattiesunderstars Glad to know we won't have another Ibn al-Haytham scenario 🤣
"Why does the Sun go down at night?"
By far my favorite joke in the show, and most people miss it.
What’s the joke?
Wouldn't have noticed if u hadn't mentioned it 😂
What was the joke?
@@tamas5931 Night happens because the sun “goes down” (the earth rotates and wherever you are is no longer facing the sun). The question flipped the situation backwards, like asking why you’re really hot whenever you’re sweating.
I appreciate the joke more thanks to OP pointing it out, it made me exhale sharply from my nostrils
@@Dexrazor yeah well you describing having exhaled sharply from your nostrils made me exhale sharply from my nostrils
“Oh my god Karen you can’t just ask kingdoms why they’re white.”
Jafar ignores the rest of them but looks over at that one.
Jaime looking so uncomfortable at 0:19 always kills me 🤣💀
Kinda becomes an even more relevant question when you consider the original story actually took place in China, not the Middle East.
true. many layers of weird casting going on here LMAO
what do you mean? what this based on?
@@adroitws1367This play is based on Disney's Alladin, which is in turn based on a story within 1001 Nights, and that story takes place in China.
@@reluctantcrusader8455 how did alladin take place in china? it does not match the name at all and afaik 1001 is persian origin
@adroitws1367 Alladin specifically takes place in China because it is specifically stated that it takes place there. Also, 1001 nights does not tend to stay within Persia for some of its stories. Sinbad, for example, has him traveling around the seas and the only places that are close to Persia in that story is Baghdad and Basra and he only tends to be in those places and the beginnings and end of his voyages.
0:20 “you’re very white.” I died laughing
I didn't get it until I realized this was a retelling of Aladdin. 😆
Now it makes sense. 😂
THANK YOU for making this a separate clip
ayy that's exactly why I made it!!
Great pfp 👏🏽👌🏽😍
Gotta love that even Jafar looks over shocked
I love that he generally ignores fourth wall breaks but even that was too shocking to ignore!
0:19 is someone (I think Jeff) saying I'm mostly Welsh
Sounds like “I’m pretty wealthy”
As if Welsh isn't white 😂 Bro is trynna argue the "Great Nothern race" thing or whatever from Nazi doctrine😂
@@benjaminmorris4962 I'm not implying that I was just saying what I thought I heard
@@GraceThomas-fv5ky I know. I'm agreeing with you cuz I heard that too. I just find it funny how, if we heard correctly, he's possibly using being Welsh as evidence that he isn't white
@@benjaminmorris4962 sounds like ‘wealthy’ to me. I doubt the majority of Americans have even heard of Wales
I love the one guy looking at his own hands, like with everyone else you could think they thought they were one of the few Caucasian people in the kingdom or something, but with him it's like he never noticed what color his own skin was until someone pointed it out.
"Why is everyone in the kingdom white?" You are in theater. I don't know how much I can stress that/
true. tried to join theater and the culture shock just did not work (am asian T-T)
...huh?@@allyli1718
i mean yeah, a lot white kids join theater but
"Theater culture" isn't exclusive in any way, atleast from what I've seen
Though I do live in America so idk, where did you try to join theater?@@allyli1718
There were 3 replies in this comment but for some reason there's only one
So weird
regional.
aladin went from being chinese to arabian to white. man's aiming to be the next black panther as well.
LMAO mr. worldwide
Haha singing propaganda makes it funny!
TH-cam recommended me this clip 2 days ago and I had no idea what it was from. 2 days later I'm obsessed with starkid
Glad I could be of service! Exactly what I was hoping to achieve, albeit like 2 years after I posted this!
What is this from😂
Starkid is a indie musical production company. This musical the clip is from is called Twisted. @@caitlindenney24
@@allyli1718 thank you! I’ve seen starkid a couple times but always out of context
Netflix when they saw an historically accurate potrayal of egypt:
Egyptians aren’t white, they are Middle Eastern because they are in the fucking middle east
The water tribe in Netflix's Avatar the Last Airbender
facts
Wait what am I missing? They cast a mohawk actress for katara right?
@@maxpackard1952 Katara is the only actress they cast that actually looks indigenous. Sokka's actor lied about being indigenous and even when it came to light he isn't, he kept the part. The actor for Kuruk is indigenous, but is very pale. If it was just like some of the water tribe actors, that would be one thing, but all of the important indigenous characters? It's become clear there was a very colorism bias in the casting where they were hiring the palest person in room. If they weren't, they would never even run into the issue of accidentally hiring a racist white man to play Sokka. His "native American tribe" is made up of white people claiming to be indigenous with zero proof they are and aren't an officially recognized tribe. A lot of Native American tribes have spoken up about them and have been ignored. Netflix doesn't actually care. They just want to pretend that they do.
@@thestrongestlivingcreature The water tribe is based on inuit culture and of their two main indigenous characters they cast, one is white and the one is mohawk which is not the indigenous culture the water tribe is even based off of. There are inuit actors out there and they aren't getting roles to play the characters based on their culture.
"Why is everyone in this kingdom whiiiiitteeee.... and speaking english even though it is set in the middle eeeeeast??"
Netflix writers looking at The Witcher.
god she’s such an icon
Twitter when they go to a nordic country.
When I went to another school in the seventh grade, it had 700 students and 2 of them were black. I genuinely thought "wow this place is diverse", because the lower elementary school was 100% white.
On the other hand, Oslo is very far from all white. One of the more diverse places I've ever lived.
thought the green guy was luigi for a second
Oh my gosh, Karen! You can't just ask everyone in the kingdom why they're white.🙄
Me walking into the gated community where outspoken liberal celebrities live
They’re a different kind of white usually
@@hocky-ham324-zg8zc The insufferable kind?
@@RaptorFromWeegee I believe he's referring to the "fellow white" kind
@@RaptorFromWeegeethe progressive liberal where he/she sees racism everywhere, denounces muh colonialism but profits from it by using the superior technological advancements from said oppressors and is an insufferable slacktivist
@@RaptorFromWeegeethe kippah wearing
A thing only amherricuns would say: "yOu'Re VeRy WhItE"
Me going to school everyday
Dumbass
Don't we wish, @Luna.
I haven’t seen this play in so long oml
Um.... Jafar?
JAFAAAAAAAAAAAAR!
average suburban white woman after 3 semesters of liberal arts college
😂
Took 3 semesters for them to see the problem
I forget acting means everyone must necessarily be only ever their true self. whatever that even means
They knew what they were singing...
Yes, shows generally do rehearsals.
@@Toastybees they may have even understood the english language and possibly the meanings of the words they said
@@brightblackhole2442 That's stretching it, they are probably all foreigners who learned all the songs completely phonetically and have no concept of English.
@@brightblackhole2442dare I say, they may have even been able to speak using their vocal cords, transmitting sound through vibrations in the air. Can’t say for certain, though.
Yeah... Do you think they usually improvised their lines?
Because the kingdom takes place in the northern part of west Europe where all the 16th, 17th and 18th century tales come from that Disney made popular
Kingdom is set in middle east
💀💀 France to Argentina: Why is everyone in your football team white?
Oh, that's easy to answer.
Aladdin comes from Scheherazade's 1001 Nights.
The story is written by a Sasanian Persian, using Sasanian Persian characters and the Sasanian Persians were Caucasians.
The Caucus mountains are LITERALLY in the heart of the Sasanian Empire.
My dude, the Caucasus was on the edge of the Sasanian Empire. Though admittedly Caucasians aren't called that because they're literally from the Caucasus.
The only people who are actually Caucasian are those currently living there in the Caucasus mountains. The idea of a wider Caucasian race originated in a now very disproven theory of racial classification. The ancient Iranians, including the Sassanids, are the same people and look the same as the people who live in Iran in the modern day
@@DotRD12 Yes, and there's a huge portion of them with fair skin and blue eyes. Lots of redheads too.
@@thewhiteknightman Armenia was less than 600 miles from the capital of the middle persian empire my dude.
@NullPoEx as an Iranian who lives in Iran I must say colored eyes are extremely rare and I have never seen a redhead in my life.@@Null_Experis
Asked a similar question but for Hamilton.
lol
"This is my kingdom come"
0:10 The girl who doesn't want do the work today.
Me in community theater shows
So that's what it was like to go to an all-white school back then...
WHITE TIGER KINGDOM WHITE TIGER KINGDOM!!!!
Game Journos playing Kingdom Come Deliverance or Witcher 3
🤔 that’s a good question..
THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT JAFAARRRR!!! 😬😂
Okay ....
Intermingling not discovered yet???
This is from a parody of Disney's Aladin
Daily Wire's Snow White
Did she say “very right” or “very white”?
the non starkid fans are ruining it ☠️
so real. they did not understand the assignment
Because it's fictional?
i know whose at fault for this!!!!
JAFAR!
I was gonna say it's because it's England, but I checked and it's in Saudi Arabia, so she's right! Right gosh dern it!
1001 Nights was written during the Sasanian Persian Empire's reign. Not Saudi-Arabia.
@@Null_Experis but the story of Alladin predates 1001 Nights
It's an old Chinese folk tale
...why did you think it was England?
@@347Jimmy Is it taken from the Chinese folk tale or did it simply come into existence while the other existed? There's a difference. Take mythology for example, a lot of different mythologies are quite similar across different regions in the world. They did not copy them, however. Certain things are just memetic to humans.
@@CanadianEhHole big reach there.
It's quite well established that Antoine Galland added Alladin to 1001 Nights when he translated the book
I'll take the his word about the story's origins over yours
Too bad that we can't sign this in America.
Ok
Das rite, we wuz kangz
Unfunny edgelord moment. The joke is that it’s set in Middle Ages Arabia.
n SHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEIIIIT
Why is everyone in the kingdom white? Good question.
Not really. If you go to most of the world, you'll find that everyone is the same ethnicity, not white, a different ethnicity.
You wouldn't go to Kenya and ask "Why the hell is everyone black here?".
You wouldn't go to India and ask why everyone is brown here. Ok, you get the idea. But when you see people being white, somehow that's a "problem" to you.
@@Dekoherence-ii8pw Good point. I didn't really mean it like that.
@@Dekoherence-ii8pwmiddle Easter people are white now? Lmao
@@borginburkes1819I doubt that was their point.
It's wild that literally everyone in America thinks of things within the terms of actual skin color rather than *ethnicity* as he clearly mentioned.
Lmao, now im wishing Hamilton pulled the reverse of this xD
braindead lol
England the musical. 😂
Why is the sky blue and the grass green? Does it matter? Just wondering.
Nope! You’re right! It’s just funny because it’s true XD and also because the show is set in Aladdin
Genshin Impact
Lol
Why are Americans obsessed with race...
because they need to use it as a tool of division and subjugation💀💀
Hold on, let her cook
Not a single esquimo. 50% should be esquimos. And 50% should be maori.
God, does the pretentious racial humor ever end? It's such low brow material. I bet Trump was mentioned too.
Uh, Hamilton is the reverse. Why are these whities suddenly people of color?
nope. never mentioned.
Caucasian and night don't rhyme but I'd prefer you keep music PC when speaking of social issues thanks
Disney be like...
haha the white person did a self hatred, hilarious!
not self-hatred to point out that you're white. please stop projecting and get therapy.
Literally point out the self hatred here, oh you CAN’T?? Maybe that’s because IT ISN’T THERE
@@sonicalex2536 when she complains there is too many white people, THERE IS NOTHING VIRTUOUS ABOUT SELF-HATRED/SELF-DEPRECATION
@@tormmac Not a complaint, just a QUESTION, you would know that if you weren’t such an ignorant blockheaded poopoo smeller! I oughta knock some sense into all you “WAAAHH ANTI-WHITE RACISM AND WHITE SELF HATRED!!” people, always trying to point out racism that isn’t there, like the boy that cried wolf, and WHYYYY do you do this? Because you see other people being actually oppressed, and your little child brain goes “NO FAIR!! I WANNA BE OPPRESSED TOO!” And so you cry racism! Self hatred! Again, and again, and again, and again, until one day, nobody listens to you, and when actual anti-white racists start stomping around, everybody will think you’re just crying wolf again
Why are there black people in Hamilton, unless they all got sunburned to a crisp😂
Do the people clapping at all this think the rest of the world is so diverse? Have they travelled anywhere?
it's not about diversity, it's about white people playing characters that are supposed to have at least a couple of darker skinned arabs 😭😭
i will say that it would probably be lowkey unethical to have actual arabs play aladdin characters. when I was in middle school theater (very white except for me, the only asian kid. to this day, it was the only place ive ever participated in that had so little diversity, save for maybe the finance field and korean churches), i was cast to play the priest with the racist japanese accent in shrek. they only did it so they could avoid having someone do yellowface with the accent 😭😭😭. it was so racist to force the only asian kid to only have ONE speaking role and have that speaking role be the one with the racist accent, like COME ON now. you couldve just not had the racist accent priest, cast someone else, and just let them speak normally instead.
similarly, aladdin is well known for having very orientalist stereotypes about arabs, especially in the way it portrays the outfits of jasmine, the guards cutting off people's hands, the good characters having more western features, and in this musical they even have harems💀💀💀The idea of forcing someone to go through what i went through is super unsound, which is why it was lowkey better for this more tongue and cheek approach of having a mostly white cast and irreverence for the source material. thus, this meta joke acts as an acknowledgement of the inaccuracy of skin color while also highlighting that in this case you're better off not worrying about the weird race inaccuracy because it would derail the show/lead to some uncomfortable racial caricature issues. take it up with disney, not Starkid productions.
Anyone can play any character. It's called ACTING.@@allyli1718
everybody would be salty they didn't get to play shrek. he's so sexy@@thestrongestlivingcreature
Its a good kingdom
I feel bad for that one brown guy who nailed the audition, but just wasn't right for the joke.
"Why is everyone in the kingdom white?" Uhm Geography?
It’s set in the Middle East near the River Jordan, so… no, not because of Geography
@@hadorstapa
So hire actors that look right.
@@hadorstapa Go look up art of the Sasanian Empire, its area, and where the Caucus Mountains are on a map. 1001 Nights is Middle Persian, not Arabic.
@@Null_Experis it's a parody of the Disney Aladdin, and very specifically the Disney version. According to the Disney Aladdin, the story set in Agrabah, a bustling city in the Arabian Desert near the River Jordan. So if you have an issue with the location, your beef is with Disney. And in fact, that's part of the point of the whole production is making, because of Disney both whitewashing and also just getting things wrong.
you killed him with facts and logic!!!!@@hadorstapa
Stage productions always race swapping for talent
One species, Human.
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@@thestrongestlivingcreature Really? Because I'm now more confused than ever
Why is everyone in the kingdom white? Probably because persians, or as theyre known now, Iranians, are white. They're Caucasians, europeans are descended from them, they are white. Although, with their geographical location and frequent slave trade back then, the odds of there being no asians or africans is...minimal.
lol look up the Wikipedia article on Caucasian. It’s considered incorrect science XD It’s backed up with tons of references too at the bottom of the article if you want to do more research!
Also Twisted is based off the movie Aladdin, not 1001 Nights, so it’s talking about the majority brown fictional animated country, Agrabah, not about Persia!
@@allyli1718 you realize that being Caucasian is a thing, right? As in, being from the Caucusus? Being of a genetic heritage native to Caucasia? Iranians and Persians are genetically a mixture of a lot of groups, which makes perfect sense for their geographical location, most largely groups like Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Turks, all groups considered white, many coming from Caucasia, groups Europeans are descended from. In summary. Europeans are directly descended from proto-iranians. They had continued and consistent extended contact with them throughout all of history. Continued genetic and cultural exchange through relations. Culturally competing with, but not dissimilar to, parts of Europe. Even by skin tone, the vast majority would be considered white with a tan, like a southern Italian. Do you wanna talk about haplotypes? Cause that just backs up europeans being descended from them even more.
Agrabah is set in the Middle East despite visually being a mix of a few different cultures. It was originally meant to be Baghdad, Iraq, according to the creators. The Gulf War happened, and they had to change that. It seems to be a mix of Indian, Arab, and Persian. It's a coastal country that is seemingly set on the east coast due to its Indian influences, in a region formerly held by the Persians and later held by their successors.
@@DomR1997 never said that the concept didn’t exist. I agree that people are from there! But please have a look at the Wikipedia article to understand what I’m trying to say. The definition of white people as being from the Caucasus mountains is, and I quote, “an obsolete racial classification of humans based on a now-disproven theory of biological race.” So whatever points you have about Aladdin being Caucasians to me has no value because you’re using such a widely-accepted-to-be-outdated classification, so outdated that it’s the first sentence on the Wikipedia article for caucasians. It’s like saying that technically all of Britain and America should be considered barbarians because they’re not Romans-Rome doesn’t exist anymore! Technically you can call them the Roman definition of barbarians if you want to, but you’re being extremely outdated for doing so! XD
Today, Caucasian doesn't really mean people from the Caucasus anymore. It's more about people of European descent. That's why you wouldn't call an Indian 'Caucasian,' even if they're kind of in the same group. It's all about how or where the term is used, like in the US for example the Kalmyks, even though they're Mongolic, sometimes get called white just because they're from Russia
@@myst6387 Caucasian is used to mean people derived from those who migrated through the Caucasus if that's what you want to talk about, which would, in fact, be europeans. Caucasian is also the correct term for anyone from the Caucasus. I wouldn't call an Indian a Caucasian because they fit neither of these descriptions. No matter how you slice it, a large part of what's considered "white people" are descended from Iranians, from Mediterranean people to Eastern europeans to Central europeans. The definition of what's "white" changes depending on the culture and time you were raised in, of course, but by modern definitions, Iranians certainly fall within the parameters for "white" people.
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What's wrong with everyone being white? That's sounds like a good thing.
nothing wrong with it, it's a morally neutral thing within a vaccuum, just like any other race. it is weird tho for a show meant to portray arabs tho (aladdin), but it's a disney parody so its not gonna be accurate anyway. just a funny thing to point out.
"sounds like a good thing" 💀
Cast it diversely and solve the problem
OR
Deliberately cast it without diversity to then joke about the lack thereof, appearing socially aware but perpetuating the same problem.
Or better, cast whatever you want.
aladdin was highkey a racist movie anyway. i think there's a lot to be said about how uncomfortable it'd be to force real POC into stereotypical roles to grant the production legitimacy when, ostensibly, it's a bunch of middle eastern caricature tropes (ie orientalist harems, threatening to chop off hands, etc.)
Like once I was an Asian kid who got cast to play the priest with the racist chinese accent 💀💀💀 you know FOR A FACT they only did it because Im Asian so that it wouldn't seem like yellow face.
anyways, twisted is not really about that, it's more on the disney parody + class issues, so i excuse some lampshading (the name for acknowledging something but not doing anything about it) on the issue. im glad they had the self awareness to know not to address the issue poorly, though it would've probably still been better had they had more POC to advise
Idk much about starkid nowadays, but i do hope that they incorporate more poc actors now tho 💀💀💀
I mean, in theatre you get who you get. They can't just decide to cast it diversely if they haven't even got access to middle eastern actors.
@@allyli1718
"Once I was an Asian kid"
What are you now?
Or better yet, let white people have something to call their own.
I don't get the joke? That's just how most ancient nations were.
Not in the Middle East they weren't.
Majority of ancient nations werent white lol.
@@van7915
No, but they were all the same race.
@@van7915 Every nation on earth has no problem casting people of their own indigenous ethnicities into whatever stories they are inspired to tell, it's only the west where we are determined to obsess over the genetics of actors in a fictional tale
@@AnEnemySpy456 You mean the Sasanian Persian Empire? It most certainly was. You can make the argument that Aladdin himself was mixed, being a lower class, but the royalty of the Middle Persian empire had fair skin and blue eyes VERY VERY frequently.
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Because it's the perfect kingdom
Because its a EUROPEAN fairy tale 😶
Sure Aladdin sounds very European
What does the colour of their skin have to do with it? Is this one of those creepy American race things?
it was a parody play of Aladdin lol
@@lilpepperlilsalt Okay I know what Aladdin is but really I'm sorry I still don't understand, Aladdin wasn't about how much melanin the characters had in their skin or anything, it wasn't even brought up in the plot idk, it's just seems like a weird American thing.
@@bajsbrev4651Oh come on… Aladdin is a Middle East tale so of course no character should be white in this story! It’s not too important as you said but it’s autoderision and they are kind of breaking the fourth wall
I think it’s very funny joke
It's a joke about the play taking place in Arabia and it being weird that everyone is white instead of arab. Like, are you just pretending you don't get it or are you just waiting for someone to say something so you can pretend to be a victim? Like you probably will after this reply.
I think you’re just insanely dumb like most people who complain about Americans but are from equally stupid countries. The joke is that it’s Aladdin and they’re supposed to be Arabians.