I just watched the Thai episode on TV and oh my god, it was so cringeworthy and racist! It made the natives look primitive and stupid, needing the american detectives (saviours) to help them. And a tribe in the woods? Seriously? That self mutilates with sticks in his face and looked more like the stereotypical depiction of indigenous people in South America.
This series was made in 2016!! >:O Why are they still making racist shows!
perhaps it is fact-based that there really are wild tribes in the woods in Thailand...whether they have knitting needles inserted through their mouths, idk, but I could not rule it out.
It's not really racist, it's not really 'xenophobic"...I call it, old "American Chauvinism.."
Historically, watching various actual cases where crimes befell people from various countries while they were in foreign countries..there are almost always complaints against local law enforcement and the quality of the investigation of the case..the family often hires a local private agent who always huffs about what hillbilly fcku-ups the local cops there are.
You have to admit even within the US itself...if something happens to someone from big-city America whilst they are in some distant small-town wilder kind of part...the local cops are always portrayed as hicks who have no clue and don't give a shyt.
Actually not only with cops investigating, it goes on with lawyers defending or prosecuting, too..the locals are always dismissed as idiots, and the big-city bigshot lawyer pulls into town like a bull in a china shop.
Like that guy who defended Mike Tyson on the rape charge.
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I am waiting for the team to fly to Canada to locate missing tourists from Buffalo, NY
shareI agree. The opening line is so xenophobic. When I heard this series was coming out, I was really hoping it wouldn't be racist.
I think it's funny that every country they've traveled to so far except France (and let's be real, most Americans hate the French) has racist or xenophobic stereotypes from the West already. Thailand, India, Egypt, Japan, Belize, Morocco, Mexico, Turkey. They're all non-white or predominantly Muslim countries.