Peruvian pan pipe music is heard all over Cusco. After a while, it can get pretty tiring to hear “El Condor Pasa” played for the 100th time. Maybe the South Park creators visited Cusco and had panpipe overload.

I am so mystified by this Dona Pepa / Aunt Jemima thing, and Peruvians don’t get why I think it’s offensive. It’s very jarring to see these characatures of black people on various products, usually for food.

Carlos, I should photograph the Caretas cover for you and let you have at it on your blog.

Patricia – who was an au-pair in the US – was similarly annoyed that the Peruvian kids don’t do the “trick-or-treating” business by US protocol… que gracioso!

We were on the way back from Accha on Halloween so we missed most of the fun. The dawgs were camping out at my mother-in-laws, so any kids who were unlucky enough to go there had to earn their candy!

Rachel, indeed it is racist but some Peruvians don’t want to see it – even black Peruvians sometimes prefer to look the other way.

This might be offensive, but it is truth:

If Barack Obama were Peruvian:

http://peruanista.blogspot.com/2008/02/si-barack-obama-fuera-peruano.html

Barb, I need to see that Caretas front page.

yeah, this sambo stuff is racist, even though the Peruvains claim it isn’t. It’s a milder racism (if that makes any sense) than the denigration directed at Andean people, but it is racism never the less.

Did you see the Carretas cover with Obama in an Uncle Sam hat, with the headline, “Tio Sam-bo”?

Patricia – who was an au-pair in the US – was similarly annoyed that the Peruvian kids don’t do the “trick-or-treating” business by US protocol… que gracioso!

We were on the way back from Accha on Halloween so we missed most of the fun. The dawgs were camping out at my mother-in-laws, so any kids who were unlucky enough to go there had to earn their candy!