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THE IMPACT OF SOAP OPERAS ON TEENAGERS LIFE
IN ROMANIA
First of all I would like to say that soap operas
are short film serials which are linked to each other and which
present the life of some people. Because these film serials were
helped financially by soap companies they were named soap operas.
As time passed by these soap operas began to become
very fashionable in Romania too as more and more TV stations
started broadcasting such kind of films. Therefore the numbers of
the people who are watching them is constantly rising and
especially the number of the teenagers who are getting more and
more interested in soaps. Many teen-
agers after watching them tried to act or to behave like an
actor from the soap did thinking that in this way maybe he
could become more popular.
Nowadays in Romania are two categories of teenagers.
There are the ones who are in favour of watching and not only
soap operas, and there are the ones who are against this.
I'm sure that the number of the teenagers in Romania who are
crazy about soap operas is higher than in many other countries.
For instance I saw on the TV that a group of teenagers opened
some kind of a club only for soap opera fans. The building in
which this club opened is covered with posters of famous soap
opera actors. The members of this foundation are dancing on the
music from the soaps and trying to imitate their idols.
The existence of such kind of foundations in Romania really
strikes me. I could never imagine that these soaps can be loved
so much by the teenagers. The reasons why they like to watch
soaps are very numerous. I tend to think that many teenagers
watch them in order to relax or because they find themselves in
the same situations, which are pre-sented in the soaps and so, they
could learn new and very important techniques with the help of
which they could solve their problems. Soap operas often take
complex, painful
issues, like euthanasia, domestic violence, AIDS, drugs and deal with
them responsibly. I believe that the things mentioned above are
very important to know especially for a teenager, that is why soaps
provide intelligent answers to help viewers who may be in
similar situations.
Beside these there are also many other things which
teenagers can learn from soap operas. As I see it the only thing
they should do is not to confuse fact and fiction on the
screen. However there are some soaps which are u |