A hero of the fat Disney? Critical gain volume – Observer

Moana is the next bet Disney. The film has as one of the characters the mythological hero of Polynesia, Maui. So far nothing new was not the design this character that has already led to a New Zealand politics, Jenny Salesa, criticized the US company to use a wrong stereotype as a basis for the creation of Maui.

Salesa says it is “not acceptable” Disney have created a character “overweight” to represent a Polynesian character. The policy states that men and women of Polynesia “the last 100-200 years,” for the most part, are not obese, stating that this is a “negative stereotype”.

In an image published on Facebook , professional rugby player Fuimanono Sapolu made a publication with a meme that are represented Roman Reigns, Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson and Jason Momoa, three actors of Polynesian origin with toned physical, over an image of Maui. With the image appears a legend where you can read that “the three most attractive men in Hollywood are Polynesians but the Maui Disney’s half pig and half hippopotamus.” In the description placed by Sapolu can read also that “it seems that Maui fished the islands and then the fried and ate”

Polynesia is a subregion of Oceania in the Pacific Ocean. World Health Organization data claim that nine of the ten countries where the obesity rate is higher in the world is in the Pacific Islands.

According to The Guardian, Maui is credited figure with the responsibility of having created Pacific Islands the after the fish from the ocean.

Many users of social networks have criticized the controversy around the design Maui, stating that the character seems not obese, but strong powerful, and stating that his physique is like that of many Polynesians.

the artist comic strip Muichael Mulipola, originally from Samoa, published on Twitter a picture where you want to show how the body Disney created for the “demigod” Maui is the type of body indicated for someone whose deeds are similar to the movie advertising.

in this drawing, the artist shows how the creation of the character is synonymous with “Power and Strength.”