Examples Of Cultural Appropriation Of Narcos

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The cultural appropriation that Netflix show in the series Narcos Is misrepresenting Colombia people and giving an wrong idea. What the series Narcos do is to show stereotypes to the rest of the world about Colombian that are wrong, the stereotypes it create affect our country image and also can affect us indirectly in our daily life or if you live in another country. Some of the series glorifies the narcotrafic Pablo Escobar and create an confusion in the youngest generation while the ones that live in that years have been affected with violence. Netflix have an powerful corporation to show good things to other countries about Colombia. The series ¨Narcos¨ of Netflix shows cultural appropriation and misrepresentation Colombians

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If people want to know about Colombian people and culture and watch the series that told the “history” of Colombia the people are going to have that image of Colombians. What the series show about Colombian is that every men have something to have with narcotrafic or every police officer is corrupt and that all womens talk “paisa”or are prostitutes amy . “the show doesn’t depict everyday Colombians or how the events of the show affected them. This has caused many Colombians around the world to be judged according these narrow stereotypes” Narcos contributed to this stereotypes when in all the episodes shows only people that are involved in the Narcotrafic world. Colombia accepting this kind of series indirectly accept the stereotypes the series show and the way we are judged in the exterior. For example the Disney movie Moana use the cultural appropriation of the islands people on social media like twitter use lot of opinions that …show more content…

Escobar was the leader of the Cartel of Medellin Who is responsible of 623 attacks, 100 bombs in one of that attacks Colegio Panamericano nurse Paola have been affected and said that was a miracle that the bomb that explode two houses away for her in Medellin did not affect anyone in his family unit, one airplane attack that left 111 dead people and more than 15.000 deaths in the narco era of Escobar. ( Semana) Netflix makes Escobar seem like a cool person and a family man that make the series believe us that he was. Also they show that being a narco is the coolest and easy thing in the world this make the young generations to think that being a narco is the best thing of the world.Juan Pablo Marroquin the son of Pablo Escobar said"I receive tonnes of messages from youths asking for help to be like my dad. They want to be that criminal, they send me photos dressed up like him, with his moustache, his hairstyle," Juan Pablo Marroquin added. Having this misrepresentation of Escobar in the series are going to cause some major effects in the youngest generations that are going to grew with the image that being a narco is good. Also this affect people of exterior countries that are going to think that Colombia is an “university” for being a narcotrafic. Another issue is that or we glorify our criminals we Colombians hate our heroes this mean that the person

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