After 9 Emmy wins and six successful seasons on Canadian TV,
Schitt’s Creek is renewing the debate about the use of accents in portrayals of immigrant communities.
Rizwan Manji played Ray Butani, the town’s real estate and travel agent, among other professions. He acknowledged the Indian accent he used on the program offended some.
“It is a very slight Indian accent somebody who was probably raised in Canada, but probably was born in India or Pakistan,”
“I don’t regret that because I think it actually works for Ray. He wasn’t like everybody else in that town. He was from somewhere else.”
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