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<language>en-us</language><item><title>Carballido: Telenovelas are a Reflection of, Not a Driver of Social Values
</title><description><![CDATA[NUEVO PROGRESO, March 23 - Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Do telenovelas drive social values in societies where they are religiously watched by housewives, their children, their spouses, their aunts, parents and grandparents?
Or, are telenovelas driven by the social norms and values of the day? Does a telenovela carrying the message that family planning is a good thing, promote birth control or does a society’s new-found tolerance of family planning provide just another script for a telenovela?
A few weeks ago this reporter covered an event at South Texas College in which Dr Petra Guerra of UT-Pan American University warned that telenovelas promoted stereotypes of submissive, self-sacrificing, suffering women she referred to as “Marianista” that could perpetrate women accepting repression and even domestic violence against themselves by identifying too heavily with the melodramatic characters of serials such as Alborada...]]></description><link>http://www.riograndeguardian.com/arts_story.asp?story_no=1</link></item>
<item><title>Guadarrama: Who’s to Blame? 

</title><description><![CDATA[EDINBURG, June 13 - University of Texas-Pan American Professor Irma Guadarrama has penned a poem about the recent shooting by the Border Patrol of teenager Sergio Adrián Hernández Güereca in Ciudad...]]></description><link>http://www.riograndeguardian.com/arts_story.asp?story_no=2</link></item>
<item><title>Mounce: Berlin – ‘poor but sexy’   </title><description><![CDATA[EDINBURG, July 11 - Berlin is the happening place...]]></description><link>http://www.riograndeguardian.com/arts_story.asp?story_no=3</link></item>
<item><title>Museum of South Texas History featured on Olé TV</title><description><![CDATA[EDINBURG, July 17 - This Sunday’s edition of&nbsp;Olé TV features the Museum of South Texas History in Edinburg...]]></description><link>http://www.riograndeguardian.com/arts_story.asp?story_no=4</link></item>
<item><title>Mounce: Politics of Dance
</title><description><![CDATA[EDINBURG, July 25 - Dancers have been called “Athletes on Stage...]]></description><link>http://www.riograndeguardian.com/arts_story.asp?story_no=5</link></item>

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