Yeah poor typo on my part. I wish I could fix it. But I am not seeing an option for that here. Hopefully a mod will see this and fix that.

But I do understand what type of “diversity” this article is focusing on – race, background, ethnicity. As a woman of color myself, I will admit I was wondering what took so long to get a black/African-American princess in the Disney Princess line, and I am honored that Tiana is not only a Princess of Color, but also one of those diverse characters that I spoke of earlier – she’s not your typical princess like many of the others are; she works hard for her dream because she knows that hard work and dedication truly makes those dreams come to fruition, and she’s not into falling in love with anyone until she learns that there’s more to life than just working to make your dreams real. Honestly, 2/3 of the three modern Princess [and Queen] movies from Disney have yes, had mostly a more… Caucasian color to them, but at least the leads have been diverse, character-wise, causing them to be more than just princesses. They became characters that were more three-dimensional and relatable to viewers. This, if anything, is the best sign of diversity in feature-length animation, and I hope more of this is around in many future films from all animation studios. [Disney is the best studio that is doing this in my opinion, so that’s why it was my example; I haven’t kept track with the other studios much, I’m afraid… I’m a terrible animation fan. ;__; ]

But I’m sure I’ve gone WAY off on a complete tangent from what this article was actually about – sorry about that! I haven’t seen “Book of Life” yet [and I want to!], but I am glad to see that future films are planning to be more diverse and show that there’s more than just “white” in the world when it comes to good lead characters. Disney has tried going diverse before with their leads [“Pocahontas” and “Aladdin”, with Native Americans and Arabians respectively] I’m really hoping that the films break the stereotypical archetypes too [especially “Big Hero 6” – I’m looking forward to it this weekend], We can only hope! Also, congrats for getting your article on-site!

But anyway more poc films are nice. But I hope people remember also that Disney can make films that are have plc films that are not princess films. I like them but Disney should not do them constantly just to have a diffract princess from each country, they can tell other kinds of stories as well.

coz i just think this may be the reason why cultural representation in animated films are lacking. those people of that culture doesnt care and would sue anything anyday.

I wasn’t trying to tear the article down (at least in my view), I just sae a lot of things that bugged me about it.

I don’t know, I guess you could say I’m rather cynical when it comes to this topic. And frankly this is the the first article here on the website that has tackled the subject head-on (and for that I will give it its props).

Its…a bit idealized for my taste (if that makes any sense).

I think we can all agree that grown ups 2 is an abomination lol But you do raise a point. Pixar will need to make sure they have a real winner on their hands with their own film in order to avoid comparison.