I knew I should have shaded her in.mooky_7_sa wrote:enigmawing, why is the princess white?!? Shame on you, you racist!
I'm anxious to actually start coloring her, but I really need to set her aside for now. I'll post her when I'm all done though . . . hope you guys enjoy the extended WIP. 
enigmawing wrote:Ok, I got up wayyy too early this morning so I had time to work on her a little more
It's awfully good. It looks like it's official rather than fan-made. I love it! Do remember to post the finished version when you are done 
It would be nice if you could make another drawing of Tiana in her blue dress as well. 
MMM HMM I second that!sotiris2006 wrote:enigmawing wrote:Ok, I got up wayyy too early this morning so I had time to work on her a little more
I see your point. I really like the green dress though, it looks beautiful on her and it would be something different for the whole princess line. No t that I really care, I guess, because I don't really care all that much about the Disney Princess' outside of their respective film.xxhplinkxx wrote:I don't know how I feel about her green dress. I mean, I like it, I think it's cute, but I don't know about it being her main dress. I just feel that for the main dress she should have something a little more... royal looking? Just so that it doesn't seem so out of place among the other princesses. I mean, Ariel doesn't have a shell dress, Belle doesn't have a book dress, Snow doesn't have a well/dwarf dress... etc, etc. So I'm not sure if she should have her leaf dress be the main one.
I dunno, maybe it's just me?
I think the Dutch equivalent of the term is 'halfbloedje' (= 'half-blood'). Which is a term that's regularly used in my family, by both my grandmother and my parents, who were raised on this term and see absolutely no harm in it. Because it was deemed acceptable when they grew up. But that doesn't mean it wasn't racist at the time. I explained my mother the other day: the term literally says that the person you are describing with this term, is of 'half blood', meaning only half 'real', half of 'value' (the half of the blood that's from the white parent, of course).BelleGirl wrote:In my innocense I always thought that that 'M' word meant nothing more than mixture of black and white parentage. I guess "mestizo" (offspring of Spaniard and American Indian) must also be regarded as offensive.
Thank you so much for this post. Very enlightening. Yes, that front page with the immigrants says it all. The way you describe it, 'The Daily Mail' is the British equivalent of 'The New York Post'; would that be a correct assessment?Wonderlicious wrote:Let me give everyone a little exposé on the topic of that article's providers...
Interestingly, that *was* the train of thought behind Doug, which was later owned by Disney.Flanger-Hanger wrote:Personally I think an Aquamarine girl and an Orange boy would far better represent acceptance of colour, but that's just one man's opinion.
I always thought it meant you've got the half of two different races in you, so the half of one blood and another half.Goliath wrote: I think the Dutch equivalent of the term is 'halfbloedje' (= 'half-blood'). Which is a term that's regularly used in my family, by both my grandmother and my parents, who were raised on this term and see absolutely no harm in it. Because it was deemed acceptable when they grew up. But that doesn't mean it wasn't racist at the time. I explained my mother the other day: the term literally says that the person you are describing with this term, is of 'half blood', meaning only half 'real', half of 'value' (the half of the blood that's from the white parent, of course).
I'm following this discussion a while, and I don't think the Dutch word is 'half-blood', but it's simply "mulat", een persoon geboren uit een blanke en een zwarte ouder, a person born from a white and a black parent.Goliath wrote:I hate to bring this thread off-topic once more, but I promise it will be the last time. There are some things that I didn't get to say because of my internet connection being broken yesterday, so I'll say them nw, briefly:
I think the Dutch equivalent of the term is 'halfbloedje' (= 'half-blood'). Which is a term that's regularly used in my family, by both my grandmother and my parents, who were raised on this term and see absolutely no harm in it. Because it was deemed acceptable when they grew up. But that doesn't mean it wasn't racist at the time. I explained my mother the other day: the term literally says that the person you are describing with this term, is of 'half blood', meaning only half 'real', half of 'value' (the half of the blood that's from the white parent, of course).BelleGirl wrote:In my innocense I always thought that that 'M' word meant nothing more than mixture of black and white parentage. I guess "mestizo" (offspring of Spaniard and American Indian) must also be regarded as offensive.
I think it is. Actually, the two other main tabloids in the UK (the Sun and the Mirror) are quite sensationalist. The Daily Mail tends to be appear less sensationalist, which makes the situation more worrying as naturally people could end up taking it more seriously.Goliath wrote:Thank you so much for this post. Very enlightening. Yes, that front page with the immigrants says it all. The way you describe it, 'The Daily Mail' is the British equivalent of 'The New York Post'; would that be a correct assessment?
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Willy, you're right, the Dutch word is 'mulat'. Makes me question if Goliaht is really right in thinking that the word was intended to be demeaning.WillytheDino wrote:I'm following this discussion a while, and I don't think the Dutch word is 'half-blood', but it's simply "mulat", een persoon geboren uit een blanke en een zwarte ouder, a person born from a white and a black parent.Goliath wrote:I hate to bring this thread off-topic once more, but I promise it will be the last time. There are some things that I didn't get to say because of my internet connection being broken yesterday, so I'll say them nw, briefly:
I think the Dutch equivalent of the term is 'halfbloedje' (= 'half-blood'). Which is a term that's regularly used in my family, by both my grandmother and my parents, who were raised on this term and see absolutely no harm in it. Because it was deemed acceptable when they grew up. But that doesn't mean it wasn't racist at the time. I explained my mother the other day: the term literally says that the person you are describing with this term, is of 'half blood', meaning only half 'real', half of 'value' (the half of the blood that's from the white parent, of course).
