@Medievalist I actually only know the Little Mermaids movie from Disney. And yes, maybe they just reached into the Schema-F box. “She is white. That’s it.” However, I also think that no one really thought about whether they were discriminating. And they certainly didn’t want to provoke anything with it.

Today, films and series are becoming much more diverse, which is a good thing. The only question is whether it really matters in remakes whether the main character is white, black, a person of color, a woman, a man, and so on. How does that make the film better? How does that make the story better? Here I think they just want to show that they are definitely more open. This is good, but seems a bit forced to me.