Emily in Paris: Rumble in Ukraine over the provocative way in which a woman from Kiev is presented

Salo in Ukraine brought the way presented in the series Emily in Paris a woman from Kiev. The country’s Minister of Culture sent a letter of protest to Netflix, according to a post on the BBC website.

In the last cycle of the series that was posted a few days ago on his platform Netflix Petra, a Ukrainian, urges the protagonist to steal clothes and accessories from a store.

Minister Oleksandr Tkachenko called Petra’s caricature “offensive.”

«In Emily in Paris we have a caricature image of a Ukrainian woman, which is unacceptable. It is also offensive. “Is that how they see Ukrainians abroad?” The minister wrote in the Telegram.

Petra, played by Ukrainian actress Daria Panchenko, she is also presented with bad clothing preferences and as a stranger who is afraid of being deported.

According to the Ukrainian media and as broadcast by the Athenian News Agency, the minister sent a letter to the platform protesting the way Petra is presented.

In fact, a Ukrainian resident of the French capital agreed with him.

“The way you portrayed the Ukrainians in the second cycle of the series, in the 4th episode, is such a cheap trick, an absolute scandal and a shame,” Yevgenia Havrilko wrote on Instagram and received 75,000 likes.

Others defended the series, such as Ukrainian filmmaker Natalka Jakimovich, who said: “So in a TV series the negative characters can be from anywhere but Of Ukraine; “Obviously we would all like to be from Moscow but you do not always get what you want.”

However, this is not the first time the series has been criticized for the way in which different nationalities are portrayed.

The series received negative comments from the French – “It presents them as rude and unfaithful”

When the first round aired, it received negative reviews — mostly on France-to promote stereotypical images of the city and its inhabitants.

The series presents the French as rude people who wear berets and are often unfaithful to their comrades.

In the new circle among the protagonists is Alfie, a stereotypical British character, who spends his time watching football and drinking in pubs.

Darren Starr, the creator of the series, had previously defended the series, saying that “he does not regret depicting Paris through bright lenses”.

He said he relied on his personal experiences from his visit to the city.

“I wanted to present Paris in a really beautiful way that would encourage people to fall in love with the city the way I fell in love with it,” she told the New York Times.

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