Dubbing American diversity

When Latin American characters appear in an American series or film, in Spain the convention is to transform them into speakers of standard peninsular Spanish. In some cases these people are dubbed as if they were speaking Portuguese instead of Castilian, which resolves various translation problems at the expense of fidelity to the original text… The ease with which the Spanish public has accepted that Latin American characters become “invisible”, to use feminist terminology, is something I find striking.