Insults and action
Prince Achmed’s first line after meeting Jasmine (that we hear) is “I’ve never been so insulted!”. So getting your butt bitten by a tiger is a worse insult than a street rat saying you have the rear-end of a horse. (Poor horse; no wonder the horse looks offended.)
I finally made the connection between the Mystic Blue Diamond and looking for the diamond in the rough; there’s a diamond connection, I guess.
Jasmine, in contrast to Aladdin, is mightily more proactive. She feels trapped, so she leaves. Aladdin continues his day like usual. Some of that is likely character and some of it is probably social station. Jasmine has the time and her basic necessities met to think and therefore follow through on her ideals. Aladdin is still trying to make ends meat with basic necessities like food. The best he can do right now is convince himself there’s a better future for him, even if he might not know how to get there.