she was strongly opinionated of everything and everyone that was not as per her

Also the "prejudiced" option.

I don't mind the other traits but I know how hard it is to deal with a non cooperative person so I can see this being her worst trait although she isn't completely non cooperative and I'm happy she didn't just cooperate with getting married to some random prince she didn't love. These traits might seem bad but in her case they don't bother me because she had reasons to act that way, heck if I were her and I was forced to marry some stranger I'd be much worse.

Yeah, I don't really like hot tempered people

I can sort of understand why she acts like this, though.

She seriously needs to relax. I believe she is very prejudiced and it hurts her a lot but I don't see "strongly opinionated" in itself being a flaw at all. I think it rather shows that she is smart and that she cares. She's just horrible with time, place and delivery. I don't mind blunt as I think it is better than being catty or manipulative so I don't see that as a flaw. She is definitely rude but I also don't see sarcastic as a flaw since it shows sense of humor. Ironically I am not a fan of sarcasm, it's not my style of humor but even still I don't see it as a "flaw". (For me, it's just something I don't prefer.) She definitely can be uncooperative but I think she's more self-centered and self-absorbed (missing from this list by the way) than she is uncooperative. Same with rebellious, I think she's more selfish than rebellious.

i see "strongly opinionated"as flaw when you are prejudiced. It automatically shuts you down to listen to others with open mind. ^agree that blunt and being straight forward is not a flaw to me either. However, i myself have 2 views on being sarcastic - sometimes it looks rude to me, while sometimes it looks humorous. It depends on situation, person, intention etc. I dont find her self-centered and self-absorbed when she clearly wanted a more active role as a princess for better of her kingdom than just being a trophy wife of some rich prince. She simply didn't want to, so to say, "play princess-princess". She wanted to see her city, find out more about people and their lifestyle and experience a different life than living in a palace. And she certainly didn't want to get married to just anybody coz that is what is expected of a princess, but she wanted to marry for love. I don't think that's self-centered and self-absorbed. That's her right.

"Strongly opinionated" and "prejudice" are not the same thing so they're not connected to me. I don't agree with you that one is "automatically shut down to listen to others with an open mind" if they are prejudiced. I don't believe there is anything wrong with being prejudice as long as you have an open mind and are willing to change your judgments should the other person earn it. Prejudiced means making a judgment about something before you have actually experienced it. That is something that all humans do, we have a preconceived notion about things before we experience them. It's when one becomes a bigot and refuses to accept new information that the problem begins.

I find Jasmine to be very self-absorbed and hypocritical. I don't think ego for power somehow makes her a better person. She is self-centered by running away when she could've asked her father to take her on a visit to see the town instead. She is self-absorbed because she only cares about her own wants and needs and no one else's. Her father is only so worried about her getting married because he wants to make sure that she is taken care of before he dies and she doesn't care because all she cares about, is what she wants to do. She wont even meet any of the princes or find out what kind of people they really are because they didn't make the "entrance" that she approves of even though it was what her father asked for. She wanted to see the city so she did, no matter how it affected everyone else around her because all she cared about was what she wanted, like a little girl under 7 years old. Princesses are not expected to marry "just anybody" actually, they are expected to marry a prince. It wasn't her "right" to get married for love actually, it was her desire. Her "right" was to be protected in the palace her entire life and her "right" was to marry a prince. It was not her "right" to disobey the law and change the entire structure of her civilization, it was her WANT not her right. A "right" is something that is obligated to you, not something that is preferable to you.

oh i differ so much on "right" - if it wasn't India's "right"to freedom coz existing government laws clearly were against it and didn't obligate it to us and it was definitely preferable to us, we'd have never been free. It was her "right" in every way until her father, a law-maker, sees the sense in it and change laws accordingly. It is very much a "right" of a person for choice whether or not the current structure allows you to do it. If people didn't fought for their "right" to vote, no democracy would have ever come. Actually it was the hypocritical Kings that they wanted all the "rights" in their hands, allowing nothing for common public to choose or for that matter even their queens and children. They WANTED them to get married for benefit of their kingdom to a rich prince. Why couldn't jasmine rule her own kingdom? she'd be perfectly safe and settled in her own home, why does she need some other prince, if not out of love. So it was her "right" to marry out of love, no matter what the laws said, coz honestly, it only helped Agrabah as kingdom gaining a sharp and resourceful and generous person as Aladdin as their future king.

And I said, combining "strongly opinionated" and "prejudiced" makes for a bad trait as it limits you to see through other people with open mind. Not that they are connected. She was prejudiced and on top of it, she was strongly opinionated, which made it difficult for people to communicate with her and for her as well

anukriti2409: I think you misunderstand me. You are talking about moral rights whereas I was talking about legal rights. I think it's a cultural/geographical difference? In America "Rights" refer to the legal rights in our Constitution. Everything you are saying applies to what is morally right, not what is a right.

There are so many reasons to me that Jasmine should not have ruled her own kingdom, I wouldn't no where to begin. I'll sum it up with she was not qualified enough to be a ruler of that many people on her own. I would be frightened for those people and certainly not want to be one of them under her rule. She needed a prince because she needed a leader for her country who was a man with experience and she didn't have that.

I understand that you are combining "strongly opinionated" and "prejudiced" but I still don't agree with you. I don't see "strongly opinionated" as a flaw nor "prejudiced". As I said before and I will repeat "I don't believe there is anything wrong with being prejudice as long as you have an open mind and are willing to change your judgments should the other person earn it. Prejudiced means making a judgment about something before you have actually experienced it. That is something that all humans do, we have a preconceived notion about things before we experience them. It's when one becomes a bigot and refuses to accept new information that the problem begins."

^ No, i was talking about constitutional right only. It was considered to be breaking law if you spoke in public in India against government, during British rule. But our freedom fighters did speak in public because they were fighting for the equal "rights". So is Jasmine, she is constantly asking her father to not force her into marrying someone just because the law says it. She wanted to marry someone for love. which is absolutely her "right" to choose, whether at that time it was in laws or not. Thats why laws keeping changing and evolving over period, suggestions are made in parliament that may serve public best in their times. She was fighting for her "right" to be acknowledged.
Its a matter of opinion whether she could or couldn't rule her kingdom - as nothing is shown in the movie so we'll be making a lot of assumptions. Even if i were to separate the 2 traits - i would still find "prejudiced" to be a flaw as that narrows someone's capacity to listen with open mind in the first place. A prejudiced person has already set their own parameters in mind and do not see the conversation/situation from someone else's perspective. I know it makes us human only, to be prejudiced, but it still is a flaw and i would not want it in me.
I don't agree that an open minded person can be prejudiced. An open-minded person sees everything from a fair perspective allowing someone else's opinion to be heard without pre-conceived notions about their situations.

^ I am getting confused. You say you're only talking about constitutional rights yet it wasn't her constitutional right to marry whoever she wanted until people who believed it morally made it a constitutional right so it sounds like you're talking about both to me? If you're saying it was her right regardless of the laws then it sounds like you're just talking about moral rights only to me? I disagree with you 100% that prejudice always narrows the capacity to listen with an open mind because that's just not true. We are human beings and we always fill in the blanks of things we don't know because we have intelligence. Just because we have an idea of what to expect does not mean we are always unable to properly receive the new information with an open mind at all. Ironically I find it kind of prejudice of you to label it that way when it's not based on fact. You are making an extreme claim that doesn't hold true which is why I don't agree. I really think you need to look up the definition of "prejudice" because you are using a connotation not the denotation which is subjective and inaccurate as a whole. It just seems to me like you do have a prejudice against people who are prejudice. I think your definition of open minded is also off. Open minded means open to new ideas etc. regardless of pre-conceived notions. You keep describing someone who is a bigot, who will never change their mind regardless of facts or experience; Not someone who is prejudice who makes a pre-judgement. Sometimes being prejudice saves your life. It's not some all-bad thing.

jassmine seems to want her on way all the time

And "hot tempered" option.