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Not True: Beauty Is in The Eye of The Beholder: The Person Who Is Observing Gets To Decide

While beauty standards vary across cultures, certain facial features like full lips, clear skin, and symmetrical features are universally considered attractive. However, some cultures have engaged in practices that by Western standards could be seen as dangerous or deforming in pursuit of beauty ideals. For example, foot binding in China, neck elongation among Padaung women, and skin whitening in Asia demonstrate how cultural norms shape perceptions of attractiveness.

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Not True: Beauty Is in The Eye of The Beholder: The Person Who Is Observing Gets To Decide

While beauty standards vary across cultures, certain facial features like full lips, clear skin, and symmetrical features are universally considered attractive. However, some cultures have engaged in practices that by Western standards could be seen as dangerous or deforming in pursuit of beauty ideals. For example, foot binding in China, neck elongation among Padaung women, and skin whitening in Asia demonstrate how cultural norms shape perceptions of attractiveness.

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A beholder is an observer: someone who gains awareness of things through the

senses, especially sight.


Beauty is in the eye of the beholder: the person who is observing gets to decide
what is beautiful.
=> not all people have the same opinions about what is attractive

NOT TRUE

- In fact, there are certain characteristics that are universally agreed upon as
being beautiful e.g. high cheekbones, full lips, small chin, small nose, wide set
- big eyes, oval shaped face.
- Even babies prefer beautiful faces to others and stare at them longer. Studies
show that we all have an innate beauty detector.
If beauty simply lay in the eye of beholders, then it would presumably be sane to
stand up and assert that a rubbish dump smelling of urine and decomposing fecal
matter was a lovely place:
And that these modern canal side houses in Amsterdam were hideous:

It appears that people from different cultures share the same standards of beauty
because they are innate; we are born with the knowledge of who’s beautiful and
who’s not.

Ex:
1. Face Tattoos:
Tattooing the chin and lips of Māori women of New Zealand is considered beautiful.
2. Lip Plates:
Lip plates are common accessories for women of the Mursi tribe in Ethiopia. Usually,
the woman’s top or bottom two front teeth are removed to accommodate the lip
plate, which is out in during the teenage years and gradually gets larger. The larger
the lip plate, the more attractive the women is considered.

3. Skin Whitening:
Since Western women tend to have lighter skin, women of other cultures have
recently picked up the look. In an effort to have extremely pale skin, women of
Thailand, Japan, and China have taken to avoiding the sun at all costs, and even using
skin white in products to achieve the pale skin tones that some Western women
possess.

Chau Anh

2. from my perspective, besides having a symmetrical face, we can also


bring out a beautiful face with a different hairstyle with a view to creat
the most suitable one. For instance, instead of using long and straight
hair, they change into short and curly which brings a whole new outlook
that enhances their face to be more attractive. Moreover, in the
contemporary age, makeup remains to be the most common method to
hide some defects on the face such as spots, wrinkles, and dark circles.
To illustrate, if your lips look bland and pale, using lipstick can
immediately compensate for that and make you more energetic. In fact,
by combining some of the ways as outlined above, we can make a face
even more perfect without relating to the hereditary side

The different between two hairstyles

Before and after do the make up


Suitable hairstyle ?

3. Phuc An
Long beautiful and painted nails were a sign of beauty and wealth in China. Japanese Geishas used
extreme beauty practices to paint their faces and body white. Boiling wax was used to coat the hair
into elaborate, decorative and appealing styles which would stay in place all night.

In China, upper class girls would get their feet tightly and painfully bound, folding the bones,
breaking them, crippling them and permanently stunting their growth to a mere 3 or 4 inches, which
were considered beautiful and elegant.

During the Renaissance, elite European women plucked out their hair, one by one, from their natural
hairline all the way back to the crowns of their heads, to give themselves the high, rounded
foreheads which were considered beautiful and aristocratic at the time. Bare eyebrows were
considered lovely as well. Think of Queen Elizabeth and the Mona Lisa with their bare brows and
high foreheads.

The Padaung women (Burmese migrants to Thailand) are often referred to as “giraffe women”
because of their custom of placing rings around their necks, starting in childhood to the time they
are married. The pressure and weight of the rings, often crossing 10 pounds, force their necks into
elongation. Without the rings, their neck would not be able to support their head.

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