The latest reality TV FAIL out of Dutch TV: Real Girls in Search of their true self.

For the purpose of “searching for their true self”, these “real girls” dress up in faux “Oriental” garb and travel to Nepal where they face challenges, described in the website as “facing the loud and physically coercive Nepalese bus drivers”, “washing a bikini in a public square next to a Holy Temple” or being part of “a confrontational road movie in which emotions run high but hilarity prevails”.

The website, in full Orientalist aesthetic, includes “hilarious” items like a “zen-o-meter”, to measure how “zen” the audiences perceive these girls.

My friend Egbert pointed me to this trainwreck, but I don’t have it in me to thank him for it.

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