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The UK is promoting UK-Peru ties by celebrating Paddington Bear. I have a few things to say about this. Paddington is not a symbol of Peru-UK relations. It is a symbol of how the UK sees Peru. A symbol of Peru’s “darkness”, its exoticism /1
No Peruvian was involved in creating Paddington. Very few Peruvians even know who Paddington is at all. Peruvian bears are not even brown. They are black. And spectacled. Paddington doesn’t even eat Peruvian cuisine. He likes jam. Not ceviche. Not pachamanca. No. Jam. /2 
How detached from Peru is he? Well... the trailer to his own movie used Zorba the Greek as soundtrack. That specific piece evokes dark memories in Peru, since it was used by the Shining Path terrorist group to celebrate one of their most well-known car-bomb attacks /3
