Whatching soap operas has a negative 

effect on society

All afternoons, after school, most of the children arrive to their homes and what they do? In the majority of cases, they turn on the tv and start to watch programs, including soap operas. Children and teenagers spend a lot of hours in front of the television watching those programs that have a bad consequences in their behavior. The soap opera is a television genre made for entertainment, but in many cases it has a negative effect on society because people copy the behaviors that could be violent.

An article of the New Your times explain that in the soap operas writers develop fictional characters that model positive or negative behaviors, and through their stories and struggles, audiences learn about issues ranging from domestic abuse to personal bankruptcy. Successful soaps tend to be smartly written, sexy and replete with plot twists and love triangles. In the best-case scenario, the show becomes popular, and viewers begin to incorporate some of the themes into their lives.

It would be more helpful to broadcast cultural content and that way it could be way of teach good things to the new generations. But it is not because, for example, in our country we can see that in soup operas are exposed topics associated with drug traffic, prostitution, murder and injustice all the time. So if that is the way that we want our children see their own country its OK but obviously that is not what we are looking for.

In conclusion, television productions should create cultural programs with higher levels teachings for the country to progress. We must begin with the education of the new generations because these children are the ones who will change the future of the country. So, the soap operas could have positive and negative effects in the society it depends of the growers but also depends  that you be more smart than the content of the soap operas that are shown on your tv.

Laura Cabrera Blum

María Paula González

Vanessa Acosta

Yolima Martinez

Luis Gabriel Espinoza