Saturday, May 5, 2007

American entertainment in the Arab World

As said we all have been watching American shows for a long time. But we also did watch Arabic show too. As we are affected by the Arab show we are surely affected by the American and western shows. Of course, these shows affect our culture, perspective and identity because nothing of what we see in these shows is related to our community in a way or another. But saying that watching an American show for fun will make the Arab watcher forget the whole idea later is wrong. Why would you watch something that doesn't benefit you or give you a new idea? In fact, most of us try to behave the same way. By the same way I mean the American western way. Now we can see everywhere that relationships before marriage are there, Arabs are dressing, acting, talking and living as western. But isn’t this what the western industry is trying to promote? I mean they promote the American dream and everybody is affected, no one can say no I'm not, there must be a little effect on us. If I take this issue personally I will say that I'm not completely affected by these shows and movies. In the other hand, I do everything I see them doing. Now talking about relationships before marriage. Before we didn’t have any of this, maybe people before didn’t know that they can do this. Back in the time people was getting married without seeing each other or knowing each other. Now we can see different relationships between men and women. We can see friends relation, lovers relation, engagement relation, one night stand relation and a lot more. So we can't say that these movies and shows didn’t affect us and that we are not acting in some how like westerns.

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