Thursday, February 7, 2013

ASIAN VS. WESTERN BEAUTY STANDARDS

This is going to be my first rant on the subject that's been bugging me soo~ much!! That is Asian beauty standards. For some reason everyone feel that ''Asians'' are trying to be white/caucasian !? and I really want to clear it up that Asians don't want to be white however I can't say it for all Asians that this is 100% true, but I will be talking about the differences between the beauty standards and how very different they are and how the media plays a huge part of western and asian beauty. 

Western
Tanned/dark skin (people feel it gives them a healthy glow)
defined check bones
deep set wide eyes
slender thin pointy nose

Asian
white/pale skin (It's healthy to have pale skin all so it a bout )
double eyelids
V line shaped
small faces/heads
high nose bridge

Western beauty is mostly of being sexy , whereas asians are more on the cute, dolly side.
Listing all the things below what western and asians find beautiful, you can easily see how very different they are. This is due to the media in asia and the west making us want these features. Media plays a huge part of our daily life since we are so used to seeing the tv, internet, adverts with women with these features (and even men) that our brain absorb the info and makes us think that this is what we need to have to be considered as beautiful even if there are dangers to it.


Example;
Western beauty standard is all about tanning a lot to achieve the tanned skin, which people find healthy!? I mean hearing this was so weird to me. Even though I live in Europe and I'm really used to seeing people tan everywhere literally, everywhere even in parks beaches and even in their own back gardens. But I can't quite understand why people think it gives the skin a ''healthy glow''.  I mean we all know the skin can get damaged very easily if you spend a long period of time in the sun and it can cause skin cancer, but despite all the dangers people still tan.





SO now you know, that just because an asian wants pale skin doesn't mean they want to be white AND just because white people want darker skin tone doesn't mean they want to be black.
(cough cough I don't know why people judge its not like they don't want darker or parler skin them self cough cough MOST OF THEM ARE JUST HYPOCRITES )

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