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Social Aspect of Ugly Betty:
Ugly Betty covers an important social issue; looks, appearance. Ugly betty is the 'ugly duckling' in Ugly Betty. Normally in soap opera's the main narrative focuses on family or sexual conflicts and betrayals, usually there is a subtext dealing with a social or political problem, but Ugly Betty is different as the main narrative focuses on the Social/ Political problem. This is one of the main soical factors covered in Ugly Betty but another important issue status; this is a very obvious issue shown through the different life styles of Betty Suarez and Wilhemina. You can see how Betty suarez and the her family live and the difference between the way daniell meade and Wilhemina live.

Historical Aspect of Ugly Betty:

Ugly betty is originally an adaptation of the Colombian Telenovela Betty la fae ('Betty the ugly') written by Fernando Gaitan. It is adapted into a New York City setting by creator/developer Silvio Horta and co-producers Salma Hayek and Ben Silverman whose production companies Silent H, Ventanarosa and Reveille respectively partnered with ABC Studios to create the hour-long program for U.S. audience. It was first shown on tv as Ugly Betty on September 28, 2006, on ABC in the United States and on Citytv in Canada. The first intial idea to bring Ugly Betty to american Tv started in 2001. NBC was the first media company to get their hands on Ugly betty, they were planning to adapt it to a half- hour comedy, which would of been produced by Sony Pictures Television, but these were just ideas and they never came to action. it was not till ABC and Hayek's company came on board in 2004 and decided to make it an hour long comedy-drama.

After working on it for two years, on May 16, 2006, ABC announced that Ugly Betty was going to be part of their 06-07 North American season lineup as a weekly hour-long series; the initial order was for 13 episodes, but eventually with it's popularity there has been many other series and episodes. Ugly Betty was first broadcasted in Britain on channel 4 was summer 2006, and since then has been going on strongly. They did have a bit of hiccups when there was a writers strike in hollywood, besides that it is going well.

Political Aspect of Ugly Betty:
Ugly betty covers a main concern in the political aspect of a soap opera; Claudia Milian, a professor of Latin American literature and culture at Duke says-“You can’t simply say this is an entertainment, because inevitably there is a message and a political reality, too.” The main narrative focuses on the political issue being covered in Ugly Betty. There is more then one political issue, another important issue is; immigration there were several episodes in season 2 where Ugly Betty's father Ignacio suarez (played by tony plana) was sent back to mexico because he did not have a valid passport. This is a political issue which is relevant to many countries in the world, through Ugly Betty a different view was shown the, family of the culprit was in the lime light, where ususally the country and it's goverment or other high authorities point of views are highlighted.