I don't MIND if they find a great folk tale from Mexico or Africa or Japan or anywhere else in the world, as long as it's a good one. You want to do a story with Japanese Samurai? The African epic of Sundiata? The Native American hero Hiawatha? Go at it, man!
But don't take the Brother's Grimm and make them LGBT Indian-Asian-Hispanic sandwich which does nothing of any of those cultures except present them with the palest Hollywood stereotype ... especially if that stereotype is bitching about European men.
I don't MIND if they find a great folk tale from Mexico or Africa or Japan or anywhere else in the world, as long as it's a good one. You want to do a story with Japanese Samurai? The African epic of Sundiata? The Native American hero Hiawatha? Go at it, man!
But don't take the Brother's Grimm and make them LGBT Indian-Asian-Hispanic sandwich which does nothing of any of those cultures except present them with the palest Hollywood stereotype ... especially if that stereotype is bitching about European men.