It is not worth contending the fact that western telenovelas have colonized our TV screens. And the sorry aspect of it is that we are all active and shameless confederates in promoting and entrenching this unfortunate trend. Western telenovelas in this respect refers to the likes of Storm over paradise, the Gardener’s daughter, Second chance, etc. Moreover, i’m aware of the cogent arguments relentlessly put across by some ardent viewers of such movies/series. Their strongest point, which I personally deem weak, is that those telenovelas offer certain relationship tips. Phew! My beef is simply that western telenovelas should be outrightly banned and the arguments espoused below justify my position.
Western telenovelas conforms to the romantic script. Romantic script is a prescription that states that so far as people are in love, they can go ahead and test the efficiency of the power stations stationed between their legs. Succinctly put, love is the paramount prerequisite to a sexual encounter. This rubbishes other essential components like marriage, maturity, courtship, family background, attitude and even, STD status. I know for sure that some people would argue that such movies are imaginative and solely meant for entertainment. But hey, we can’t deny the fact that what we hear and see can influence us. That’s what psychologists call observational learning. The point is these telenovelas are inconsistent with cultural values and is gradually tearing the moral fabric of our society apart, wide apart.
Are you surprised at the spurt in pre-marital sex (fornication), adultery, indecent dressing, snatching of spouses and other social traumas? Well, personally i’m not. This buttress the point I raised earlier. These western telenovelas are key engineers in consolidating explicit display of semi and complete nudity in our society. In such telenovelas, you see heavy-provoking breasts gorging out in very, very tight braziers, men with ears, lips, navel and other parts of the body pierced, etc. They simply lack didactics. Didactics refer to a moral lesson contained in a story, prose, or even a movie. I’m tempted to believe the relationship-tip argument when I see married men/women sleeping with the opposite sex in the name of love without any remorse or even later grave repercussions. My goodness, this is serious!
When Nkrumah confidently expressed to a large crowd on 5 March, 1957 at the Polo grounds, that our country is free forever, he failed to caution them against other forms of colonialism; nicely wrapped and packaged intrusion of our sovereignty. Western telenovelas is an aspect of neo-colonialism. According to Wikipedia, neo-colonialism is a term used by post-colonial critics of developed countries’ involvement in the developing world. And like I said in my introduction, we are shameless confederates of this development. Oh yes, I have the guts to say we are. How? By endorsing them, viewing them, discussing them, talking them and neglecting our local serial movies for them. This is absolutely ridiculous!
If you are on my side, then you are lucky and witty dude walking on a positive ground, but if you disagree with me, what are your arguments, dear?
Ruth. Nii,i'm solely with you but you know what? our local movies as we currently view are now full of these sacarstic features we are complaining about telenovelas.And frankly speeking,if i'm to compare and choose a kind of movie for myself,then i would go in for the later.Why?Because although the demoralising scenes outweighs moral ones perse, informations are perfectly sent across and education is delivered after a watch unlike our local movies.
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