We may have exaggerating it..but it's a norm when it comes to Spanish soap operas, doesn't it?.. =D

It is true indeed that whenever we talk about Spanish soap operas, people, especially the females, will go crazy about it. If we were about to do a study upon the behavior of how these soap operas may create, we may do it based on the idea of functions of attitude and on the idea of error of perceptions. We have few types of functions of attitude; selection and organization, expression of values and reconciling contradictions. As for error of perception, we have few types of it too; stereotyping, halo effect and projection.


Let’s see how do functions of attitude had to do with the issue of Spanish soap fever. Talking about selection and organization, literally, it provides a basis for the interpretation and classification of new information. Whether you are working or not, you might have to select which drama you are going to watch since you don’t have all day to watch every drama that they have screened. Then, you ought to organize it according to the schedule perfectly. The expression of values on the other hand, applies when the audience value the Spanish soap opera filled with beautiful stars, good looking actors and without them people, the soap opera wouldn’t be very interesting to watch after all. When we say reconciling contradiction, there are few contradictions made, for example, it’s ok to watch television when it comes to these melodramas and the reason is because they get to pick up a smattering of Spanish, even few words. Very much contradicting with the idea of “stuck in front of the television is not good”, we believe.


Let’s move on to the second idea which is on the error of perception. Stereotyping is one of it. The audience tends to being stereotype upon the characters for example, the male protagonist are mostly portrayed as full of flaws and etc. This issue too has created halo effect amongst the society due to the reason that this Spanish soap fever or addiction started by Maria Mercedes three years ago, followed by other dramas, continuously. Not only that, projection too, happened when we have a propensity to react towards certain part of the drama, we tends to overreact when the heroin is being harshly dumped by the hero, mostly. I guess it’s a pretty normal thing and we should give credits to the actors for putting up a good act.. =)



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