Oprah has made a huge cultural fail with her latest “Oprah’s Next Chapter” segment which was taped in India. Apparently she’s not quite as cultured as she thought she was — at least that’s how the folks over there feel:
The smell of incense (tick), the sari fitting (tick), the aspirations of slum dwellers (tick), and the glitz of Bollywood (tick). Let’s not forget arranged marriages and the fact that Indians, even rich ones, “still” eat with their hands (tick, tick).
India as Westerners imagine it, one stereotype at a time.
This is how many in India responded to the two India-focused episodes
Thursday, 26 July 2012
Elsewhere In The World: Oprah Offends Indians With Her “Ignorant” Comments
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