Is Racist “Homeland” series? – Teletrece

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The hired to do some painted in a decoration of the American series “Homeland” and artists took the opportunity to show their displeasure with what it considers stereotyped Arabs and Muslims portrait.

“Homeland is racist,” “Homeland is rubbish” were some of the messages written in Arabic three of the hired artists. And everything will go unnoticed until the point where graffiti appeared on the air.

The artists, who revealed in a statement his “feat”, explained that commissioned them graffiti in June to provide “more authentic” to a decorated that recreates a refugee camp.

Custom reluctantly

At first they did not like the assignment, but after thinking better, felt that his art could convey your “political discontent and many others with the string “.

” It was our time to present our point of view with a subversive message using the same series ” , they said.

The episode where they exit graffiti is Chapter 2 of season 5 of the series, which already aired in the United States.

“visual supplement”

As was told, no one checked what they were actually writing .

designers scenario were “too frantic to pay attention,” ironizaron artists.

complained that the producers tried the Arabic script as “a mere visual complement” .

“We are trying to make a call atanción a more differentiated view of the region and we are also trying to say that things are not as simple as they seem in this program “he told the BBC Caram Kapp, one of the artists who participated.

In Season Series, his description of the Lebanese capital, Beirut , prompting criticism by the portrait that made the center of Hamra, which they considered had little to do with reality.

Some Pakistani spectators also bothered by how it was represented the capital, Islamabad, and the name of a character who is a terrorist is almost identical to the former Pakistani ambassador USA.