The Middle Easterners want Aladdin to be a Middle Eastern story, and the Indians want Aladdin to be an Indian story.
In fact, in the original folk tale, Aladdin was actually of Chinese descent.
The truth is, it’s really a folk tale from the 1800s, and Agrabah is a fictional place that’s a culmination of India and Asia and the Middle East.
So what we wanted to do with this was represent as many different cultures from that part of the world as possible.
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