Response to Maria Delgado on Camille Rose Garcia

I too, like many other people, grew up visiting Disneyland; when it was much cheaper also. While the real stories that The Brothers Grimm (authors of Snow White) and Lewis Carroll (author of Alice in Wonderland) were much darker than the Disney interpretation, Disney films much like the actual theme park, is very Eurocentric. The films that Disney tends to produce tend to feature Princesses of European descent. Most recently, the successful Frozen franchise demonstrates how quickly people fall in love with characters without realizing that most of the Disney films and princesses are not diverse. Frozen was based on the Danish story of The Snow Queen by Hans Christen Andersen. Similarly, The Little Mermaid is also based on a story by Danish author Hans Christen Andersen. Disney does not typically derail from the hegemonic narrative of European princesses and when it does, these princesses are not considered "real" princesses. For example, Mulan from the self-titled film and Princess Tiana from The Princess and the Frog are not the first princesses that pop up into our head when we are asked to name a Disney princess. I am not saying that it is bad that this narrative is being perpetuated but simply pointing out the fact that Disney has not yet developed a film where there is a princess of Latin American or indigenous descent. Even if Disney did make such a film, would the Latin American and indigenous community be offended by Disney's interpretation of such a princess?