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Who is the main character of "Aladdin"?

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[quote="AladdinsGenie"]Oh, don't even get me started on this. I wrote a whole essay on it for a Freshman comp. paper last semester. If I can find it, I'll post it.

But to do a mini rant:

Jasmine is an Arabic name, it's just spelled differently. 'Yazmin' is how it's supposed to be. They can get over it. My name is Arabic and it's spelled differently. I've heard no one of Arab decent fuss at me. They were just looking for something to rant on about Jasmine. Not that they didn't find a bunch of stuff as it is  :roll:

Instead of them getting out of that scene how mean life can be sometimes, and to show how oblivious Jasmine was to the harshness of the world outside the palace, everyone took it and played it up as this big personal insult to Arabs. 
I'm sure the same thing would have happened if they would have placed Jasmine on the streets of some rough neighborhood in New Orleans and said it was an insult to blacks.  :roll:

And the cut lyric-oh come on. I think people forget this is about Agrabah and not present or past Arabia. The people in Agrabah could have been like that. People just have a problem swallowing reality when it's told through the eyes of someone else.[/quote]

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