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When Popular Films Misrepresent My Country, They Misrepresent Me

When people tell me “I don’t look Colombian,” I’m reminded of how pop culture gets my home country of Colombia wrong—where we are, who we are, and what we can look like.

BOGOTA, COLUMBIA, FIVE OR SIX YEARS AGO

Mr. and Mrs. Smith

Mr. and Mrs. Smith

Mr. and Mrs. Smith

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I Dream of Jeannie, Mission: Impossible, Bewitched.

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