La mezquita en la pradera

Hace unas semanas les comentaba sobre Little Mosque on the Prairie, una comedia de la televisión canadiense sobre inmigrantes musulmanes en un pueblito de la provincia de Saskatchewan. Yo vi una parte de uno de los primeros capítulos, no aguanté más. Se trata de un producto muy políticamente correcto y cuidado para no ofender a nadie ni hacer olas.

Este es el comentario de Mark Steyn:

Never mind all that. There is after all no more heartwarming tradition in Canadian popular culture -- well, okay, unpopular culture: it's the CBC, after all -- than the pleasant frisson induced by the routine portrayal of rural Canadians as halfwit rednecks. One would characterize it as Canadophobic were it not for the fact that the CBC's enthusiasm for portraying us as a nation of knuckle-dragging sister-shaggers reinforces our smug conviction that we're the most progressive people on the planet: we celebrate diversity through the ruthless homogeneity of CBC programming; we're so boundlessly tolerant we tolerate an endless parade of dreary sitcoms and dramas about how intolerant we are. In that sense, the relentlessly cardboard stereotypes are a way of flattering the audience. In the second episode of Little Mosque, for example, the non-Muslim gals of Mercy stage a protest against the mosque: every single woman in the march is large and plain and simple-minded. The only white folks who aren't condescended to are the convert wife of the Muslim patriarch and the impeccably ecumenical Anglican minister (though his church, unlike the mosque, is dying).