Well put!poodlek wrote:Caucasian people think I'm a pasty freak and East Asians think I'm 'pure' looking. East Asians also consider me to be obese (I have a BMI of 24) and Indian people (well the men anyway) think I'm a goddess. Beauty truly is in the eye of the beholder, and there's only one beholder that counts!
Everybody (and it seems even exaggerated here in Asia) has a sense of lacking something, and there will always be some industry or another ready to capitalize on that, be it cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, diet, gyms, self-help, get rich quick schemes or dare I say even some religions. It's the way of advertising in a capitalist economy...it's only our cultural conditioning that makes certain things (for instance skin-whitening) seem ridiculous while others seem normal.
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