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Filipino company petitions NBC to cancel show that is new a mail-order

Filipino company petitions NBC to cancel show that is new a mail-order

Experts state ‘Mail Order Family’ makes light of individual trafficking.

Previously this week, NBC announced that they had purchased and were creating a sitcom called Mail Order Family, which Deadline defines being a show that “follows a widowed father that is single orders a mail-order bride through the Philippines to simply help raise their two preteen daughters.” Unsurprisingly, there was a petition calling for the show’s termination.

Mail purchase Family was made in component by Jackie Clarke, a writer-producer for Superstore, plus the show is apparently according to Clarke’s family members. But Gabriela United States Of America, a company fighting for the “liberation of most oppressed Filipino ladies,” say in its petition that the show will probably perpetuate harmful stereotypes, and makes light for the problem that is ongoing of trafficking into the Philippines. Read More