Aladdin is a Chinese national in an North African unknown setting having been drawn there by a North African sorcerer. It was added to 1001 Nights in its French translation based on a Syrian folktale from a woman in Aleppo brought to Paris.
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Turns out I remembered things incorrectly. I thought the sorcerer brought Aladdin to Africa, but that is not clear in the translation which implies the whole story is set in China but with all the descriptions matching the typical Middle Eastern tales (such as there being a Sultan and not an Emperor).
Yeah i think if i recall correctly from what i had previously read, the best guess was that the setting could be in a Muslim area in China, or at least in a bordering territory to China.
Either way i would definitely be interested in seeing a fresh take on this story.
According to the wiki it’s likely a story passed around the Silk Road a bit and that’s where the strange mix in the original translation comes from. It seems like it might be a Chinese folktale with influences from Africa and the Middle East that basically takes place in the surroundings familiar to the one telling the story (the famous one being written based on a Syrian telling of the story). It’s actually kind of on topic in the end!
The Vikings. Fellow tribesman Tony Curtis co-starred.
The question is hard to answer. Actors like Douglas, Curtis – Leslie Howard and Cornel Wilde also come to mind (and on the distaff side Hedy Lamarr, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Lauren Bacall) – didn’t hide the fact that they were Jewish, but they generally played macho or romantic lead roles against the stereotype, and I doubt their fan base understood the fact the way they might have if Eddie Cantor, Phil Silvers, or Eli Wallach were romancing the leading lady (or if they hadn’t adopted very waspy stage names).
You seem to be saying that people expounding on why they hold views different from your own are not engaging in discussion.
By the way, crying “slippery slope” is actually one of the classic rhetorical fallacies. As in, not a great thing to build your own argument on.
I’m confused, too, why free speech doesn’t extend to people protesting about the few available roles for people of color being given to a white actor. (Don’t even try Hamilton, which was covered adequately above.)
Possibly. There are lots of popular actors today whose names are every bit as commonly Jewish as that, except that “Bernie” is no longer a very popular name, period.
I do wonder if they’ll be a wave of young baby Bernies from parents of Bernie Sander’s fans now, though? I mean, why not… if people can name their kids Khalessi and Kylo, why not Bernie?
