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FortuneCookie posted...

If they want to make an animated series based off of Beauty and the Beast, 18th century France is suddenly going to have larger Black and Asian populations because, "If magic beasts and talking teacups can exist, why can't they?" If Belle's best friend is Asian and the royal captain of the guard is Black, I could still accept that this is 18th century France through an idyllic lens. But if you reimagine it so that ethnic French people make up less than 50% of the cast, you might as well set the story in Middle Earth, Eternia, or Hyrule. "French" is an architecture and not an ethnicity.

OK, so you don't have a problem if they simply reinvented / adapted Beauty and the Beast so that it's less about historical France, and more in an alternate reality that focuses more on the generic ideals.

Just as Christians hijacked the pagan winter solstice holiday and turned it into Jesus' birthday. And now the rest of the world has reinvented Christmas to be less about Jesus and more about a big green tree, and gifts, and spending time with family.