I have no idea what actually happens in the non-Disney version of Aladdin
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Replying to @ShadowTodd
The most basic thing is that Aladdin is from China. The Arabian setting was, officialy, because One Thousand and One Nights is from the Middle East. The real reason for it was because Katzenberg is a petty sack of salt and tried to steal and undermine The Thief and The Cobbler.
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Replying to @SirEriol @ShadowTodd
Well, it's not just that, the original story isn't culturally Chinese at all, he's in China because that's what someone from the Middle East at the time would've thought of as "the ends of the Earth" "Aladdin" is obviously not a (Han) Chinese name
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The original story says that the evil sorcerer is from Morocco and has traveled to China in search of the lamp, i.e. he's traveled all the way from the western edge of the Earth to the eastern
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