As discussed over the past two weeks in class, beauty standards are something that we are made to grow up with in today's current society. Everyone seems to have an image of how the ideal person should look. Through movies, posters, magazines, and of course, toy barbie dolls, the picture of beauty manages to stay constant throughout all of this. However do different races have different beauty standards? After all, despite her white surroundings, it is certainly a stretch for a black female to grow up wanting to have "pretty blue eyes." Personally speaking (Despite not being able to speak from a females point of view) I do not believe that beauty is limited to only those who have blonde hair and blue eyes. Especially seeing that these two traits (in hair color and eye color) are entirely genetic, and are unable to be changed by someone. However I do believe that the sought after definition of beauty is slightly different to every race. After all the Indian definition of beauty is certainty not the same as the American definition of beauty that we are all to similar with. Of course they are not totally different concepts, and many aspects of both are bound to overlap, but much like the different culture in India there is a different set of standards for beauty that accompany that, and though suffering from the same issues that we discussed in class, it should be stressed that people should not get too caught up in images that they were never meant to be able to be in the first place.
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