Racism in Peru: locally produced TV presents Indigenous and Black Peruvians through Insulting Characters and promotes White supremacy
by Carlos QC
This "Country woman Jacinta" is an example of how popular is the mockery of the Andean women in Peru. Jacinta is a poor migrant from the farmland to the big city of Lima, where she always gets involved in complicated situations -due to her "ignorance"- while she is portrayed as ignorant, needy, teeth-less, ugly, unclean, outdated, stupid, naive.This program has been banned after protests by human-right activists in Peru, but its video are still available online posted by Peruvians! "Paisana Jacinta" was produced by Frecuencia Latina, a channel owned by an Israel-born Jewish man; and America TV today owned in part by El Comercio (Peru) and El Tiempo (Colombia) newspapers. In the following image an ignorant Paisana Jacinta confronts an educated librarian, a 'white' woman as part of a "comedy" show in Lima. This sad and offensive character is still celebrated by many Peruvians many of whom are of Indigenous heritage as funny. Read More
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