Culture Disney causes controversy with its new animated series called 'Primos' and social media is on fire - Another case of an American thinking that knows foreign culture better than the people actually living there.

By José Arrieta.

Disney's new children's production, called "Primos", raised an unexpected controversy in social networks after exhibiting its first moments at the Annecy Festival, France, considered the most important in animation and which has Mexico as its guest country for this edition.

Set in a fictional city called "Terremoto Heights", the series portrays the life of Tater Ramirez Humphrey, a 10-year-old Mexican-American girl who, according to the official synopsis, is in search of her dreams.

Things get complicated when her twelve Mexican cousins arrive to spend the summer at the family home. However, despite this, her relatives will allow her to learn more about herself and help her achieve her ambitions.

Both the name of the fictitious town, the number of people crammed into a single house, the yellow ochre filter and even the names of some characters, such as "Nacho" or "Cuquita", which they accuse of being generic, were harshly criticized in social networks.

"How many filters did this passed? Didn't anyone warn that it is incorrect to say 'Hey, Primos'? Didn't anyone think it was messed up to put 'Terremoto Springs' (sic) to a Latin American city? I'm not usually offended by these things but... even the name of a character has a sexual connotation in some countries," dubbing actor Ale Graue wrote on the social network.

The series follows a large number of characters, and we meet a varied cast of boys and girls with the most generic names such as 'Nacho', 'Anita', 'Gordita' and 'Cuquita'. It is precisely the latter that has generated quite a stir in social networks, as the term has several meanings in different Latin American countries. In Colombia, for example, it is a way of saying 'vagina', while in Mexico it would be the diminutive of 'Cuca', a very popular name.


(The creator of the series talking down to someone actually Latin American)

Created by Natasha Klein, the series depicts the family chaos that, according to the producer and leader of the project, she experienced in her childhood inside her own home, as an American with Mexican roots.

"Everything I do goes through this lens, it's the culture I was raised and grew up in, it's my family culture, it was all over the place where I grew up, so everything I do is influenced by it. Every note I took, every scene I did, is inspired by who I am and the culture I grew up in," Klein said at a panel where she explained the motivations behind the cartoon.

Kline, who voices a character named "Gordita" in the show, has been part of the production team for series and films such as "Big City Greens," "Star vs. the Forces of Evil" and "Lego Ninjago: The Movie," for which she received an Emmy Award nomination.

So far, Disney has not made any official pronouncement about the series, which is scheduled to arrive on television through Disney Channel and streaming through Disney+.


Article (The article is in Spanish.)

 

[Troon_Patrol]

Here's the thing, if you are going to write an ethnic-plot driven movie/show/series it better be Oscar-worthy or its going to fall into two groups. Group-one," whitewashed" AKA not ethnic enough, you will be called racist and a hack. Group-two "racist" AKA too ethnic AKA too accurate while not praising the ethnic group enough, you will be called racist and a hack. Basically unless the show is so fucking good it's critic the usual groups will find some problem with it, complain and cancel the project before it even gets beyond the pilot. You can't win, so don't try. The only thing to do is to wait about 5 years and everyone will find some new social problem to be worried about or a war will take everyone attention away from calling everything racist or sexist or able'ist. The cycle goes about on about every ten years.

 

[God of Nothing]

I’m surprised nobody posted the Twitter video of the main character’s voice actress responding to the criticism.

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TLDR: She’s retarded. You have to listen to how fucking wrong she is about where the Spanish language came from…

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If the video doesn’t work, forgive me I’m on mobile.

classic woman moment

 

[Doppelmonger]

"Don't watch my show"

>>Show crashes and burn

"My show failed thanks to toxic latinx white supremacists!"

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

Here's the thing, if you are going to write an ethnic-plot driven movie/show/series it better be Oscar-worthy or its going to fall into two groups. Group-one," whitewashed" AKA not ethnic enough, you will be called racist and a hack. Group-two "racist" AKA too ethnic AKA too accurate while not praising the ethnic group enough, you will be called racist and a hack. Basically unless the show is so fucking good it's critic the usual groups will find some problem with it, complain and cancel the project before it even gets beyond the pilot. You can't win, so don't try. The only thing to do is to wait about 5 years and everyone will find some new social problem to be worried about or a war will take everyone attention away from calling everything racist or sexist or able'ist. The cycle goes about on about every ten years.

These days there are things like this which are category 3. Racists, but racist in a way that plays to the stereotypes the perpetually offended sorts believe in. Which never make any real impact but get called racist by functional humans who not being perpetually online engines of screeching do not make an impact.

 

[Haramburger]

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wft is this afro-mullet goblino with a unibrow and cleftlip
Why would anyone want this on their TV screen

Loud House had a spin-off called Casegrandes, where a latino family of eight lives above a bodega they own & operate, and one of the kids is a Downie.


The picture doesn't do him justice, you have to hear him talk too:

Unsuprisingly, it went three seasons and was cancelled. This seems like a carbon copy of that, and it makes sense that Disney would greenlight something so brown and female after also ending Amphibia and Owl House recently(also brown and female shows, made by retarded race-obsessed jewish women).

Instead of making shows that cater to mexicans, hoping that white people will put up with it and mexicans will eat it up in the ever-demanding cult of "we must have ALL demographics watching at ALL TIMES," go back and make a show about robots, or sharks that burrow in concrete, or cat people fighting lizardmen. When you have NO races, there's mass appeal. Until you try to also over-copy something like Teen Titans and then you get that colossal fuck-up Thundercats Roar!.

 

[Super-Chevy454]

just keep the village kids away from them
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Holy screwed face Batman! Why the face of that weirdo reminds me of Liz Fong-Jones?

 

[Lord of the Large Pants]

it makes sense that Disney would greenlight something so brown and female after also ending Amphibia and Owl House recently(also brown and female shows, made by retarded race-obsessed jewish women).

What are you talking about? Amphibia was made by a Thai dude, and also didn't suck. Anne being Thai only came up explicitly in like 2 or 3 episodes aside from the fact that her parents ran a Thai restaurant.

 

[Kulee Baba]

I was in Colombia once and saw this logo on a truck going by:

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Needless to say, everyone around me looked at me like I was nuts when I started laughing uncontrollably.

I still remember the first time I tuned into a Dodgers games and seeing Kike Hernandez at bat. They added an accent mark to make it Kiké as to allievate the awkwardness.

 

[Cpl. Long Dong Silver]

I still remember the first time I tuned into a Dodgers games and seeing Kike Hernandez at bat. They added an accent mark to make it Kiké as to allievate the awkwardness.

On Sunday the Tampa Bay Rays use a junior announcer in the third inning. It's usually a kid 6-10 who reads the player names. When the Red Sox were in town Kike Hernandez came up to bat in the third and I really hoped 8 year old Devin was going to call him a kike. Unfortunately I think they coach the kid before each player on how to pronounce it.

 

[Psyduck]

Lets be fucking clear here, all this "outrage" coming from "true mexicans" is an extremely homosexual grift

When any other ethnicity tries to capture mexican culture, they always go for the very base of it with your mariachi, your tacos, the whole dia de muertos aesthetic, etc. That stuff is only seen nowadays in the more rural, humble parts of the country, aka, people who have bigger problems at any hour than being "misrepresented" in a cartoon

People typing these "as a mexican" clapback posts with their very western styled shitposting and their decent english are almost as far away from mex culture as the showrunner kike is.

You have a computer? Can you speak english? Can you afford to be upset at a fucking cartoon? Then you're on the same level of mexican AOC is

 

[Doppelmonger]

-snip-

Nacho Libre, Coco, The Book of Life, Mucha Lucha! and Speedy Gonzales are beloved in Mexico despite using the lowest hanging fruit for visuals and story building. We know that those aesthetics are what most people associate Mexico with and we are fine with that. I am also aware that when Primos was first shown, it was made fun of because the aesthetics and the overall chicano theme.

Now the backlash has shifted thanks to the attitude of entitlement of the creator as she is being an overall asshole dealing with the project. Her responses are poorly made and can be summed up as "I am the victim here my mexicanes friends, I am embarrassed of talking because people mock how I talk using the conquistador language" attitude. This deal of comments is what has made her project being the only one that has had any backlash from the Annecy Festival, where there was other Mexico themed films that used the humble rural grandpas and dia de muertos aesthetic made by both mexicans and people from other countries.

The whole outrage would have died if she just could keep her mouth shut.

 

[Super-Chevy454]

The whole outrage would have died if she just could keep her mouth shut.

I think it was too difficult for her to keep her mouth shut.

 

[Slap47]

They're not pandering to the people annoyed by this. They're pandering to idiot Americans who call these people Latinx and wish to tell them what their culture is.

Since no-one has posted it yet

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If you tell them you are using it as a slur they respect you for it.

 

[Osama Bin Laden]

Loud House had a spin-off called Casegrandes, where a latino family of eight lives above a bodega they own & operate, and one of the kids is a Downie.

thank you for posting this clip because wow, this was a lot to unpack and very funny to watch. as someone who isn't a spic but knows (somewhat) spanish. it's extremely funny to watch a show that was most likely made by a bunch of white people who took a duolingo course for a week. I am going to try not to come across as spergy because I find it hilarious, but I wanted to share my thoughts.

"um grandma is this [mexican food] spicier than usual" because mexicans like spice

"those are jalapeño pancakes" fucking... jalapeño... pancakes. i wonder if they got it from a mexican wearing sombrero on a donkey

"carlito says ghost pepper leche" do mexicans just eat nothing but just spicy everything? even the baby gets spicy milk

and then the grandma corrects the children on how to say "ow my eye" in spanish. oh dios mio.

the downie beaner makes the show even better with the most basic mexican stereotypes

it's great that i'm learning spanish because wow this show is even better to watch when you know the language and culture

 

[Shidoen]

Like I said in the Western Animation thread, it’s not that hard to find out what whites, blacks, and hispanics want to identify with. JUST MAKE DRAGON BALL Z.

 

[Would]

Instead of making shows that cater to mexicans

Just don't. Beaners, thanks to Mexican Comcast AKA Televisa, who make goyslop so bad it makes Burger goyslop tasty when compared, are hardwired to avoid most Mexican shows with beaners. Like the chinks, they want big tiddy blondes and jacked Aryan supersoldiers.

But mostly, they don't want to be represented, they want to be entertained.
Their lives suck enough as it is, they want a fantasy to escape to, not a reminder of their shitholes. The only Mexicans who want representation and diversity are the ones who have not an ounce of actual Mexican culture in them and think a shitty show/propaganda piece will fill the void where heritage would be.

Don't believe me? Ask yourself why none of these shows are popular in Mexico or South America...
No one in SNK's King Of Fighters looks like their Mexican audience, not even the two Mexicans in the game, who look like this:


And this:

(Yep, these beaners look and are exactly like the ones who mow your lawn and stink up your local Home Depot, according to Japan.)

And yet that game series is more beloved and known than Jesus Christ himself over in the land of the donkey and taco. Beaners don't wanna be shitskins, only the ones who are already white-passing want to be seen as Raza.

 

[Shidoen]

Just don't. Beaners, thanks to Mexican Comcast AKA Televisa, who make goyslop so bad it makes Burger goyslop tasty when compared, are hardwired to avoid most Mexican shows with beaners. Like the chinks, they want big tiddy blondes and jacked Aryan supersoldiers.

But mostly, they don't want to be represented, they want to be entertained.
Their lives suck enough as it is, they want a fantasy to escape to, not a reminder of their shitholes. The only Mexicans who want representation and diversity are the ones who have not an ounce of actual Mexican culture in them and think a shitty show/propaganda piece will fill the void where heritage would be.

Don't believe me? Ask yourself why none of these shows are popular in Mexico or South America...
No one in SNK's King Of Fighters looks like their Mexican audience, not even the two Mexicans in the game, who look like this:
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And this:
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(Yep, these beaners look and are exactly like the ones who mow your lawn and stink up your local Home Depot, according to Japan.)

And yet that game series is more beloved and known than Jesus Christ himself over in the land of the donkey and taco. Beaners don't wanna be shitskins, only the ones who are already white-passing want to be seen as Raza.

You would not believe the fun I had in elementary school when all of us were watching the Sayain Saga and we did a retarded Kamehameha all together when Goku and Vegeta got to their fight. Good times since we were kids entertained by that. Too bad Primos will most likely have the uggos lecturing how bad this and that are.

 

[Oilspill Battery]

What are you talking about? Amphibia was made by a Thai dude, and also didn't suck.

On a scale of gravity falls and forces of evil/owl house, where would you put amphibia?

 

[Shidoen]

On a scale of gravity falls and forces of evil/owl house, where would you put amphibia?

A shallow grave like those other ones.

 

[Lord of the Large Pants]

On a scale of gravity falls and forces of evil/owl house, where would you put amphibia?

I never saw Gravity Falls or Owl House. I actually quite liked Star VS (for all its flaws) but I don't imagine many people here would agree with me on that.

But anyway. Quite solid. Actual coherent plot, pretty interesting heroes and villains, respectably good character dynamics, and even an appropriate ending. Definitely worth watching once.