Series on Netflix to work inclusion.

Series on Netflix to work inclusion.
Posted on 19-03-2022

Some content on Netflix can help us reflect and work on aspects related to inclusion.

We are at a time when it becomes necessary to inform and raise awareness about diversity. Bullying, racial discrimination, or towards people with a diagnosis such as those on the autism spectrum, for example, are issues that require massive intervention. We need to collectively change the way in which we conceive diversity.

The rejection of what is different, of minorities, is due, as we mentioned in previous articles, to a fear of loss of homogeneity, among other things, because it generates a sense of security. When we do not work on our unconscious aspects, we project what we reject from ourselves outside, this being the mechanism that generates discrimination, segregation, and disputes between different groups.

Having different characteristics has always constituted a threat to the social status quo and attempts have been made to repress, expel, medicate or lock up.  In the case of Mental Health, for example, it is significant how at the beginning, “crazy people” were locked up as a way of preventing them from breaking the established structure and order.

What are different questions the supposed «normality», confronts us with the possibility of change, and this produces great uncertainty. It is time, in the current situation, for the patterns of social exchange to change, for access to information in educational centers to be democratized, and for children to work on the acceptance of difference.

Some of these series workaround that difference, and give us the possibility of empathically accessing those stories, being able to connect them with the feelings that we all share at some point, of feeling rejected, different, inadequate. Anyone who has gone through adolescence experienced, albeit unconsciously, a feeling of strangeness and inadequacy. We can understand these processes, and seeing that we are not so far away is that we can empathize and integrate.

Atypical: A very interesting series that tells us about the life of a boy diagnosed with ASD. The theme is very well carried out, it is a comedy that explores the daily life of the protagonist in his passage through adolescence, showing how a person with these characteristics experiences changes and how the family is positioned in this interaction. It provides a lot of information to be able to understand and empathize with his experiences. This is of the utmost importance because it allows us to know, break down myths and prejudices and is a significant step towards greater inclusion. We must educate about this because what hurts and segregates is essentially intransigence and lack of information.

This s*** is beyond me. This series explores the vicissitudes of adolescence, the feeling of not belonging, of being different, complementing it with touches of science fiction that capture the changes that manifest in this stage of life in a fun and original way.

Sees it. An interesting love story between two very different people who, in their own way, express their feeling of misunderstanding, of not feeling part of what surrounds them. The protagonist also represents the conflict with addictions and what effects it brings on a social and bonding level. Stigma, prejudices, insecurities, and the importance of love in consolidation. Both allow each other that mutual containment that helps them make their way on their respective paths.

Dear White PeopleA series that should not be missed. Criticism of the approach to the issue of racial discrimination in recent years, where somehow it became popular to talk about inclusion but from a place of superiority, from where a true deconstruction is not glimpsed. To reflect.

The proposal of these series implies an approach to characters that in one way or another are or feel excluded. Through these stories, we can expand our perspective, recognize ourselves a little in those circumstances, and weave networks where sometimes there are only barriers.

 

 

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