In Peru, a new television show has started to hit the prime time, and really make an impact in the Peruvian culture. The television show is titled, "La Paisana Jacinta" (The Peasant Jacinta), a caricature about a poor indigenous woman with blacked out teeth that is played by a man in drag. This television show is about an outsider living in a urban area, and it highlights the differences in Peruvian culture, and degrades the factions of society that don't choose to live and act like the other members of mainstream and urban Lima. Personally, I don;t understand why a television station decides to make a show that is so offensive and degrading of a specific group of people, and I am very pleased with the UN's decision to call out the Peruvian television station and basically take this show off of TV by putting it into a 7:30 slot on Saturday morning. I think this show should be taken off the airways, and I also find it appalling that a large group of people, including the Peruvian government would allow for a show like this to hit the airwaves that is so offensive and rude to a large group of people. http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/sep/03/peru-tv-racial-stereotypes-paisana-jacinta
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