Latey: Looking for love – How to respond to the bachelor of Ethiopia caused controversy

The boy meets the girl. The girl falls for the boy. The girl loves love rivals and boy – finally announces his love for him.

If you have seen a few changes in this plot, if you have seen a few changes of this plot – it is a story line that plays love is blind and bachelor.

However, in Ethiopia, this romantic scenario violated the Convention.

Content creator Bethel Getahun won the insurance agent in Latey on Christ Hailemeskel: Looking for love – a reality television show that ignites the disputes about the dating norms in the conservative East African country.

Latey’s building, there is a hit’s show above, bachelor (Actually Amharic for the Latea Bachelorette).

Ten women grew up in Dallas and had to compete for the love of the 38-year-old Ethiopian-American Mr. Christ.

Throughout the series, women hit a strange contest in boxing matches, basketball competitions and even a mattress.

Launded on YouTube, it is a rare dating program in a country where the meeting has been a traditionally private business.

Surreal, who won the show in such a basic show, 25-year-old MS Bethel, BBC’s African Podcast said. More than 620,000 images from the final week, the victory still “feels like an engagement”.

Of course, not everyone else feels the same.

“The concept of dating show is completely (a) the Western opinion,” Ethiopian Vlogger Semere says cassine.

“Dating in Ethiopia has always been a private issue, and only brought up and reached the level of maturity and reached the level of maturity.”

41-year-old Mr. Semere also feels that the show is devalued by the show as an object to be obtained.

Several spectators expressed the same opinion – a commentator in YouTube wrote: “Ladies, not something with money, that the money can easily get you.”

Another asked: “There is a lot of creativity in production, but if against culture, what is the point?”

Ms. Bethel, the concept of the concept of women who openly competing for men, acknowledges that the concept of Ethiopian traditions, but he insisted that the show is more than the center of the show.

“The whole point of the show is to represent different types of women,” he says.

“If you saw episodes, each woman in the episode has many different types of different types that are not expressed or represented in the media in the Ethiopia.”

Undoubtedly, Laty is successful in this regard. Women – Hotel managers, flight workers and accountants – quickly share personal stories with each other and followers.

In one of the more hearty scenes, Actress Vivian said he fled to Ethiopia, a neighboring country Ensures an indefinite military call for all capable citizens. It is also widespread in the violation of human rights.

Vivian has sent Ethiopia alone and did not see his mother in five years.

“I miss him so much,” he said.

Another place, a model, a model, a lot of work, and other women have emotional conversations for the sadness and respect for their siblings.

Reconciling these women’s realities – and their romantic dreams – Latey informs the BBC in cement, producer metasebia yosefi as the “period of the period”.

D! NKTV, Latey production company, MS Metasebia, a production company Latee, shook the show “shook the ship”, but far from Ethiopian culture.

“The number one – it’s not a hyper sex,” he says.

“We will know this more innocent, you will know, dating stages.”

He says that the show is also “What is our culture?” Does he ask to interrogate the concept of culture? ”

A universal reality formula made a fan, a fan said: “I always wanted to see other shows in the Ethiopian version that I always protected as a society.

A second follower wrote: “I never imagined the bachelor’s monitor in Ethiopia, but you did a great job that brings him.”

From the back of this success, D! NK TV plans the second series.

This time, MS Metasebia says the only woman, the one who chooses the 10 male hopeful match.

“We are very opinions from the audience, people want to see the roles according to the opposite,” he said.

For MS Betel and Mr. Christ? Unfortunately, their love story came to stop.

“This is a long distance because he is with his son in America. So it’s really hard … I don’t know where it won’t go.”

However, if Ms. Betel still wanted as a “sorority”, it is still close to anyone who competes.

Latey, walking Latey demonstrates the “romantic side of the Ethiopian” and will lead to better representative offices of the show in the Ethiopian media.

“It’s a new way of how they express women and themselves,” he says.

“This is a new way.”