If you have Scandinavian friends or Family, show them this
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I saw this earlier this week. It’s to the point that I expect this each and every time now. And what really annoys me is that she takes the role knowing that she is the 10000th race swap and she will bash fans. I hope this bombs.
Want to know something kind of sad? Some of the designs in the animated movies were Polynesian not Scandinavian. The creators mixed the two up. So as far as the creators care, all heritage is unimportant.
My wife's dad is Icelandic. He demanded I name our biological son Thor. I love this man. My wife has decided not to share the news about the movie to him.
Basically every "island" culture in any Western media becomes Polynesian. Because they are the "boat" people in the simple mines of artists.
I guess they never heard of ancient Greeks and their boat culture.
I guess Ancient Greeks are just too pale for their eyes to be able to see them.
There are a lots of impressive maritime feats all over, but you do have to give this one to the Polynesians. They more or less topped colonization via sea until the European empires practically conquered the oceans.
If you want something the Greeks don't get recognized for in popular culture anymore, it's just how far their reach extended. Some people might be vaguely aware that the Greeks went east, but I don't think many know they made it as far east as India.
Though coincidentally, the Norse do give the Polynesians a run for their money on colonization distance, if not purely by sea. Seems like every few years, there's evidence of Norse contact deeper and deeper into Canada. That would have been as much by rivers, coasts, and land as open sea, but still noteworthy.