Only One Group of People Love Li Shang As Much As Asians Do
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So… Li Shang isn’t going to be in Disney’s live action “Mulan”, and that honestly sucks.
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Literally everyone is bummed out about this.
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But you know what other group of people besides Asians really loved Shang?
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Like, really, really loved him?
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Mormons!
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Okay so get this — you know that the original voice actor for Shang’s speaking voice is none other than the legendary B.D. Wong, right?
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Right? Right. But you know who voices his singing voice for the ultra-iconic song that teaches us all how to be men?
That golden voice belongs to Donny Osmond — one of the most famous Mormons in entertainment (aside from Ryan Gosling).
While it’s true that this ends up being a classic case of Whitewashing via voice acting, it wasn’t something that Mormon children in Utah were truly aware of at the time — even though now we know it’s wrong.
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Instead, our parents just really seemed to love Mulan (likely due to Osmond), and we ended up watching that more than some other Disney movies of the era — maybe more often than non-Mormon kids?
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But understand why we love him as much as we do — Donny Osmond was part of “The Osmonds“, the other family band in the Jackson 5 era. They enjoyed most of their success in the 1970s and 1980s, selling over 100 million records worldwide.
So while everyone else had moved on from Mulan, Asians — and Mormons — just couldn’t because we love it and Li Shang so dang much.
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So we’re all taking this news pretty hard… but we’re all in this together.
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