All true, but the national pavilions in Epcot don't display the weapons of the peoples of Europe whose ancestors were not only tribes constantly at war with one another, but who participated in two World Wars (and a whole bunch of ""conflicts"") in the past century. Imagine the Norwegian, German, Italian, UK, and American pavillions being mostly war ""memorabilia"".
Anyone have any pictures of this? Curious to see what it looks like now and a Google Search isn't helping me.
This is Adventureland.
On the other hand, weaponry forms no part whatsoever of California Adventure’s signage or theming.
Like most things, Adventureland is handled very nicely at Disneyland Paris. Interestingly, off the top of my head I can't really think of anything there that would attract the sort of revisions we're seeing in the US parks.I’ve always loved the main Adventureland entrance at Disneyland Paris:
Shades of Agrabah! All that is needed are Foreign Legion sentries.I’ve always loved the main Adventureland entrance at Disneyland Paris:
Just an idea not immersed in the shield / spear argument.
Different kind of adventure.
Which is kind of my point. Adventure comes in many forms and doesn’t have to be evoked through “tribal” weaponry.
I hear what you are saying and implying, but, when some colorful bright striping on the the canopy of an amusement ride boat denotes something sinister as you suggest? Uhhh, NO! What you imply was not and is not there, don't see it.
I suggest a quick review of French colonial history in north Africa (don't have to go back too far) and the pictured entry would not look sooo well done. I like it and its different from the U.S. versions but the history revisionists will find plenty of ammunition to attack it and want to change.
This is a fair point, though I read the gate as referring to Agrabah rather than to a North African setting. Either way, it's certainly an example of Orientalism, which makes it unavoidably problematic to a certain degree, but at least it relies on exoticism rather than violence.
I tend to agree with LittleBuford that this is a decent point, but the the entrance at DLP is more a romantic orientalism than overly romanticising colonialism. I honestly also read it more as an Agrabah-type setting more than North Africa. The rest of the land does that to a certain extent, too, but by leaning more heavily on pirates and the Swiss Family Robinson, it doesn't really repeat the trope of dealing with dangerous natives. If the trope was threatening North Africans, the theming would read differently.
