Talk:The Little Mermaid (live-action film)/@comment-26345648-20190708023243/@comment-1672596-20190709110554

@Popdropper: Agreed, although a bit of a minor correction: The remakes didn't alter the ethnicities of any major characters. It DID, however, alter those of some minor characters. Case in point, Fifi/Plumette was originally white in Beauty and the Beast. In the Remake, she was black (though I suppose her name change means she's a different character altogether). I'd mention Pere Robert, but he's closer to a fully new character. And while not an actual ethnicity change, they did change Kaa's gender in the Jungle Book remake.

@FozzieMan: Yeah, yeah, we know all about those things. Heck, the original was already about those anyways (Ariel was a mermaid who married Eric, a human, after being turned into one, and she also sought to immigrate to live among humans), so even under that pretense, changing her ethnicity was completely pointless. Not to mention, you don't need to have a different skin color to be an immigrant. You can move from Britain to France, for example, and be considered an immigrant. It just requires you hail from another country.