Little blonde beggar girl whose treatment has sparked race row in Mexico: Outrage after government rushes to help her after photo goes viral on social networks
She could be any one of a thousand impoverished Mexican children who sell gum of beg for money on the street in dirty clothes except for one thing - her blonde hair.
The flurry of internet attention to the photo, and the quick way officials reacted, has renewed a debate about racism in Mexico, a nation that is proud of its mestizo heritage but where millions of indigenous people live in poverty and passers-by often barely notice the dark-skinned children begging in the street.
The controversy started last week when a Facebook user posted a photo of the girl standing next to a rear-view mirror on a Guadalajara street.
'We need to see a white girl to worry about kidnapping, trafficking of children and child exploitation,' wrote human rights activist Yali Noriega. 'I've never seen photos of Indian children or simply dark-skinned kids circulating on the Internet with people asking others to help them'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...profiling.html
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She could be any one of a thousand impoverished Mexican children who sell gum of beg for money on the street in dirty clothes except for one thing - her blonde hair.
The flurry of internet attention to the photo, and the quick way officials reacted, has renewed a debate about racism in Mexico, a nation that is proud of its mestizo heritage but where millions of indigenous people live in poverty and passers-by often barely notice the dark-skinned children begging in the street.
The controversy started last week when a Facebook user posted a photo of the girl standing next to a rear-view mirror on a Guadalajara street.
'We need to see a white girl to worry about kidnapping, trafficking of children and child exploitation,' wrote human rights activist Yali Noriega. 'I've never seen photos of Indian children or simply dark-skinned kids circulating on the Internet with people asking others to help them'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...profiling.html
nancy grace where you at?
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