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If there were still dark-skinned people of recent African descent (aka the so-called "Basal Eurasians") hanging around the Arabian region ~10,000 years ago...is that why they cast Will Smith as the genie in the recent Aladdin reboot?
If you remember the original animated movie from the 1990s, the genie had been encased within that lamp for approximately 10,000 years when Aladdin discovers him ("Ten thousand years will give you such a crick in the neck!"). If this carries over into the canon of the new film, it would make sense for the genie to look African rather than medieval Arabian like Aladdin and his people.
Does this mean that Disney casting agents have been lurking around ES and other amateur anthro communities all this time?
Askia_The_Great Member # 22000
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Interesting theory.
Thereal Member # 22452
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You might be on to something because I've recently seen Al ajeerza videos about the strife afflicting folks in Yemen and the thumbnail is generally a dark skin Yemeni or one that looks stereotypically African.
Nassbean Member # 23084
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Will smith is an afro american with obvious european ancestry he's absolutely not a good example of basal eurasian
Ish Gebor Member # 18264
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quote:Originally posted by Nassbean: Will smith is an afro american with obvious european ancestry he's absolutely not a good example of basal eurasian
This “basal eurasian” you keep babbling about is a based on a hypothesis (wishful thinking) to shift the narrative, because it actuality is African in origin.
quote: The ‘Basal Eurasians’ are a lineage hypothesized
~Iosif Lazaridis Genomic insights into the origin of farming in the ancient Near East
quote:And long before “Support from the relationship of genetic and geographic distance in human populations for a serial founder effect originating in Africa”.
So by that token Will Smith is a very good example.
quote:which suggested that the African ancestry in West Eurasians is at least as closely related to East Africans (e.g. Hapmap3 Luhya (LWK)) as to West Africans (e.g. Nigerian Yoruba (YRI)) (the same analyses show that there is no evidence of relatedness to Chadic populations like Bulala) (Text S5 and Figure S12).
~Moorjani et al. 2011 The History of African Gene Flow into Southern Europeans, Levantines, and Jews
quote:Originally posted by Nassbean: Will smith is an afro american with obvious european ancestry
There are african americans and blacks africans that have a skin tone like will smith and do not have other race admixture,so your views here are incorrect.
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