Dadaviz's Jody Sieradzki thought that something interesting may came out of crossing the total number of eBay sales by dollar amount of Disney princesses' merchandise with their skin tone and hair color. While correlation doesn't mean causation, the data is interesting.
You can argue that the data may be skewed in favor of Elsa since that has been the latest Disney hit. If you take her out of the picture, however, the white princesses still win, with a oldie like Cinderella capturing the first spot and Snow White following closely.
Then again, you can argue that the correlation may not be related to the the skin and hair color but to the success of the movies themselves. It would be interested to see this visualized. Also, after so many years, re-runs, ad re-editions, Cinderella and Snow White are imprinted in pop culture than any other Disney princess ever produced.
So perhaps it's not the fact that Tiana is black and Jasmine is arabic that make their merchandise less popular than Elsa or Ariel, but the fact that the movies of the former weren't as good and successful as the films of the latter.
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