Dora, Dora, Dora the Explorer-ah! Dora was created by Chris Gifford in 1998 with his colleague Valerie.
Both of them were working at Nick Jr, which is Nickelodeon's preschool program, and they got a very
exciting opportunity. They were asked to make a hit show for Nick Jr. so then they got to brainstorming.
But finally, they decided to keep it simple. They were going to make a show about a young Hispanic,
none binary girl who would ask the preschoolers at home to help her solve a problem or problems in
each and every episode. So they started working on the show for months and months, and then their
boss went to a conference where they learned that of the 80 Nick Jr program all of the characters
were under the age of 18, not a single one was Latinx. And then the head of programming at Nick Jr
came back from the conference, and they then announced Dora was okay to them. The character they
were working on, she's going to be Hispanic, Latinos, and she's going to be bilingual. They took the
wrong position. They said, look - there are Latinos in the world even is the US of all kinds of
backgrounds, and I think it's important that kids of different Latino backgrounds could be able to
identify/agree with Dora. But at the same time, people are openly showing their hate towards people of
different races, colors, and different/ immigrant communities. It's 20 about years later, and Dora’s
messages have not changed.
Both of them were working at Nick Jr, which is Nickelodeon's preschool program, and they got a very
exciting opportunity. They were asked to make a hit show for Nick Jr. so then they got to brainstorming.
But finally, they decided to keep it simple. They were going to make a show about a young Hispanic,
none binary girl who would ask the preschoolers at home to help her solve a problem or problems in
each and every episode. So they started working on the show for months and months, and then their
boss went to a conference where they learned that of the 80 Nick Jr program all of the characters
were under the age of 18, not a single one was Latinx. And then the head of programming at Nick Jr
came back from the conference, and they then announced Dora was okay to them. The character they
were working on, she's going to be Hispanic, Latinos, and she's going to be bilingual. They took the
wrong position. They said, look - there are Latinos in the world even is the US of all kinds of
backgrounds, and I think it's important that kids of different Latino backgrounds could be able to
identify/agree with Dora. But at the same time, people are openly showing their hate towards people of
different races, colors, and different/ immigrant communities. It's 20 about years later, and Dora’s
messages have not changed.
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ReplyDeleteI liked how you summarized the NPR Dora the Explorer thing, but some things I would change is your title. It says Dora vs. Sesame Street which isn't what your summary is about. Another thing is that it doesn't ask the reader a question nor does it say what kind of impact Dora has made and why people don't like Latina's and are discriminating against them. Put aside those errors, your blog post was awesome! :)
ReplyDeleteGood job I thought that it stayed on topic and explained the creation of dora and the ideas they went through whale creating it. The summary really explained the whole story line and creation. It was clear and simple and I had no trouble reading it. I though agree with shreya but it didn't tell about sesame street vs dora.
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