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Peruvian folkloric music singer Dina Páucar: I have suffered racial discrimination

Lima (Peru), Jun 11 (EFE), (Camera: Álvaro Mellizo).- Peruvian folkloric music singer and composer Dina Páucar went through a deep depression after suffering racial discrimination for a long a time. INCLUDES VIDEO COURESTY OF SINGER AND COMPOSER DINA PAÚCAR AND SOUNDBITES:"I said 'Enough! They said everything to me, grabbed me by the hair and my braids...I've suffered enough' and one day, when a person mistreated me, I told that person: 'One day I'll fulfil my dream, one day I'll live in an exclusive part of Lima. It won't be today or tomorrow, but I'll do it one day. It took me long years to reach my goal, but it's never too late.It was never too late for me. it was my dream and I fulfilled it. So I want to tell this to my friends and all the people who come from the mountains, the coast, the rainforest...they have to fight for their dreams.""I got used to receiving all kinds of insults, of all kinds, to be honest. Repeating what they said to me it's not worthy.""I've suffered from depression, very bad. I've cried a lot...I sometimes hide from my sons since they kept telling me not to see how people insulted me and I said 'Do I have to get used to deal with so many insults?"