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