Impacto Cultural de O Clone

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Es realmente interesante aprender sobre los efectos de las telenovelas y sus personajes en tu vida diaria. En nuestra clase, hablamos de cómo las jóvenes se obsesionaron con la idea de hablar y vestir como María Suspiro en Cosita Rica cuando era popular. 

¿Las telenovelas tienen más efecto del que nos damos cuenta?

The Wall Street Journal afirmó en 2002 que "About 70 million Brazilians tune in daily to a telenovela, as the soaps are known, making them more powerful than newspapers, television news, books or priests in the world's largest Roman Catholic country" (Jordan, 2002). Esto allana el camino para un enorme potencial para influir en los espectadores.  



Para continuar, lo mismo que pasó con Cosita Rica pasó con O Clone en Brasil. La gente quería bailar la danza del vientre y vestir como Jade, que se puede ver en la imagen de la izquierda. Pero quiero centrar en el efecto que ambas versiones de la telenovela tuvieron en sus respectivos países con respecto al Islam. El Sr. MacNamara de Telemundo dice que es importante ser lo más preciso posible en la televisión sin dejar de entretener, pero que siempre hay algo de exageración para hacer una buena historia. ¿Es posible que la forma en que retratan el Islam sea un poco exagerada para hacer más entretenido el amor prohibido? Sí, esto sucede en la mayoría de los programas. Pero, cada religión tiene diferencias dentro. No todos los musulmanes están obligados a contraer matrimonio arreglado o se les prohíbe amar. Este tema se destaca en la telenovela hasta el punto en que muchos verdaderos islamistas no estaban de acuerdo.

Entonces, otro punto realmente interesante a destacar es el momento de la versión original de O Clone que se emitió en Brasil el 1 de octubre de 2001. Esto fue JUSTO después de 9/11. Los escritores del programa dijeron que habían sentido una mayor responsabilidad de diferenciar el Islam del terrorismo. Es educativo para países que no tienen mucha exposición a los musulmanes en su vida diaria, específicamente Brasil. Este aspecto educativo también fue otra razón para impulsar la nueva versión de Telemundo para los hispanos en los Estados Unidos, donde había 7 millones de musulmanes.

En conclusion, es cierto que las cosas que vemos afectan cómo actuamos y lo que pensamos. Muchas veces las telenovelas pueden ser educativas. En esta circunstancia, la telenovela educa a personas de todo el mundo sobre el Islam y diferencia el Islam del terrorismo, que fue muy importante después de 9/11. Es importante saber la diferencia entre ficción y realidad.

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