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Jameela Jamil: The ‘erasure’ of south Asians made me hate where I was from

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Jameela Jamil has said the “erasure” of south Asian people from popular culture previously made her “hate” where she was from.

The actress and activist, 34, made the comments as she delivered the Alternative MacTaggart lecture at the Edinburgh TV Festival.

She said there was a dearth of people from south Asian cultures in the public eye apart from in the comedy Goodness Gracious Me, which she labelled as “one of the funniest shows of all time”, and actors who were cast as terrorists. “That erasure impacted me and made me hate where I was from for a really long time,” she said. “I thought, ‘Well, if they never show us as the hero or as the heroine or as the protagonist, if we are always just the caricature of our people, then there must be

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