If you think aunt Pepa is whitewashed ✨ you are racist✨
And need to educate yourself!
I’m Latina, I’m Colombian: We Latinos can be white! I’m actually pretty pale and my dad and his whole family is black
Am I whitewashed? I’m not Colombian enough because my skin color doesn’t fit your Latino stereotype? I’m adopted because if my family is black then I should be it too? It’s called genetics, and diversity. And for those who don’t know, we are a very diverse country since during the colonial period we had a lot of races and nationalities sharing in our territory: Africans, Spaniards, Natives. Creating new races like “criollos”, “mestizos” and “mulatos” and that’s what they tried to represent in the movie, by making aunt Pepa with pale skin.
So stop trying to teach us how people in our country should look. Educate yourself. You are more racist assuming we all should be brown than accepting that Latinos can look in various ways.
And you can’t fight me since I live here in Colombia and I’m Colombian.
And as a Latina I’m really proud of seeing some white Latino representation in international media (if you are going to talk about our own Latino telenovelas please don’t. Latino telenovelas are just for Latinos, don’t have any international relevance most of the time) since everyone around the world thinks we are only brown because of stereotypes! When our territory has afrocolombians, mixed, black, white and everything in between.
Also the movie is focused on a territory similar to the states of “Caldas” or the “Quindio” where most of the people around there are white because of the weather, so changing it was a good creative decision and we got an equal representation for all skin tones! (In fact there is only 3 white characters in the madrigal family and I think that’s enough and perfect)
I’m Colombian and I’m very proud of this movie. Why are people saying that Pepa is whitewashed? Dude, my family’s diversity is so big and here that’s so normal.
