A new Netflix reality series following the lavish lives of nine wealthy, light-skinned socialites in Mexico City has provoked a backlash from critics who say it's tone-deaf in a country where most have darker skin and about half the population lives in poverty. "Trash," ''filth," ''pathetic," ''classist," were some of the more polite adjectives users employed to describe their reaction to the show, "Made in Mexico." "I wanted the world to see a different Mexico, from a different point of view," Jaff said. The white and the wealthy have long dominated Mexican media, from telenovelas to newscasts to high-society supplements of national newspapers that chronicle fancy weddings, galas and mansions, with hardly a dark-skinned face to be found. The phenomenon has taken off in recent years, amplified by the explosion of social media and accompanied by a number of corruption scandals during the administration of President Enrique Pena Nieto.

Source: ABC News August 29, 2018 14:48 UTC