I want little black girls to experience that same feeling with new Ariel." Ariel can be any race, because race is a social construct, and mermaids can be whatever color we please, because they don't exist. If we're going to go by the source material, the representation in ancient mythology fully supports fluidity between retellings. What color are mermaids skin? Yes, according to science, mermaids are white because they live under water and have less melanin, which means a lighter skin colour.
Mermaids are commonly depicted as mammalian, human-like creatures from the waist up and scaly fish-like creatures from the waist down. What properties (color, texture, etc) would their mammal skin likely evolve to have while living under deep water? There was controversy over the new little mermaid being black, but I'm curious from a scientific perspective what would be the most beneficial skin tone for a mermaid. Real people over thousands of years adapted to their climate with a variety of skin tones.
What would make the most sense for a mermaid? I'm operating under the believe they need similar things to humans (at least for their. Like humans, mermaid skin color would depend on where they evolved. Provided mermaids settled where sunlight readily penetrates the sea, what oceanographers call the euphotic zone (via the National Ocean Service), then Hollywood gets it right by giving mermaids the pigmentations humans have according to latitude and ultraviolet light exposure.
One thing to note, Hans Christian Andersen left out race, skin color, and character names. For the animated movie, Disney made the little mermaid white, made her hair red, and gave her a name, Ariel. They also had a more human-like appearance, and they could have red hair, green eyes, and fair skin.
Why Mermaids Can Be Any Colour As we have seen, mermaids are not a fixed or static concept, but a fluid and dynamic one. They have changed and evolved over time and across cultures, and they have acquired different features and meanings. It's sad that we even have to argue about why Ariel from The Little Mermaid would realistically have darker skin.
The Little Mermaid: The Colorful Tale 👉 The Colorful Tale 👉 Discover the varied interpretations of The Little Mermaid's skin color, from Hans Christian And. The latter is a much broader category that mostly has to do with heredity, and the geographic location of ancestors relative to the equator. You'd have to have generations of mermaids who have lived with sun exposure to have skin colors comparable to certain racial groups.