The fact is for certain that American entertainment is affecting our culture and life-style. This has significantly increased in the last decade. Every generation is under the exposure of the influence of the environment around it. The type of music I like and listen to is different than what my parents listen to and I’m sure my future kids will not have the same taste that I have.
What we have and show in our mass media channels are directly or indirectly related to our culture. Culture is some thing that changes by every passing moment. Our way of perceiving changes all the time (sometimes a little and sometimes a lot.
I think the problem will start when we invade our religious regulation with these external influences. As long as they do not conflict with my religion, change is a good thing. At least I know it’s not bad.
Unfortunately, they do invade it. Lack of hijab, music and dancing, early relationships of boys and girls are some of the outcomes of these external impacts from foreign media channels.
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You are absolutely right, and I agree with you about our generation behaviors and beliefs which are completely different comparing to our parents behaviors and beliefs. We have different tastes and tomorrow our children will have different tastes, attitudes and behaviors. Also, you right about early relationships, being a pop dancer and all these modern actions. Through watching American shows, youth think that these behaviors make them cool and popular. However, we can't put all the blame and generalize that these changes in youth attitudes are all because of the American T.V shows. There is a lot more, but at the same time I can't deny the fact that these entertainment shows have a great affect on the youth attidues. For us (Arabs), we think that each and every Ameican thing is bad so when we hear about American shows we see them as negative programs which deliver negative messages. So you made a great statment when u said "As long as they do not conflict with my religion, change is a good thing" if American shows doesn't affect our norms and religion then watching them is not bad.
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