International Concepts of Beauty Final Draft
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Sandra Kim
International Concepts of Beauty
15 May, 2013
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Have you seen the movie, “Mean Girls”? If not, watch it and become enlightened about the terrible things that girls do to one another and the ordeals they must face to climb the social hierarchy of high school. Beauty is a necessity in every culture as it can determine social status.
In other words, the most beautiful would have more opportunities than the less beautiful.
Standards of beauty restrict women all around the globe and all succumb to the pressures of the beauty industry, even if it means a lifetime of devotion to beauty regimen. Beauty seems to define the individual more than their occupation and intelligence. The modern world is improving everyday, however, the things that people do to be beautiful in society has become a burden. It seems ironic that an attempt to be beautiful, which is suppose to bring happiness brings misery instead; however, beauty is the one of the most adulated, and “although ideas of beauty may ultimately be subjective and unique for every human, there are clear cultural trends that shape these subjective views” (“International Concepts of Beauty”). With today’s innovative science and technology, “modern societies draw closer through global communication and media, international standards of beauty may also be converging toward a universal concept of what it means to be beautiful” (“International Concepts of Beauty”). The mass media; television programs, advertisements on billboards, magazines, films promoting perfection, the fads that countries like the United States, England, South Africa, China, Japan, and Korea deem beautiful, and cultures that are pressured to conform to “Western” ideals encumber women globally as they undergo cosmetic surgery, go on impossible diets that lead to eating disorders, and have instilled women with insecurities about themselves. By generating awareness and
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instilling self acceptance in
Sandra Kim
International Concepts of Beauty
15 May, 2013
Best
Have you seen the movie, “Mean Girls”? If not, watch it and become enlightened about the terrible things that girls do to one another and the ordeals they must face to climb the social hierarchy of high school. Beauty is a necessity in every culture as it can determine social status.
In other words, the most beautiful would have more opportunities than the less beautiful.
Standards of beauty restrict women all around the globe and all succumb to the pressures of the beauty industry, even if it means a lifetime of devotion to beauty regimen. Beauty seems to define the individual more than their occupation and intelligence. The modern world is improving everyday, however, the things that people do to be beautiful in society has become a burden. It seems ironic that an attempt to be beautiful, which is suppose to bring happiness brings misery instead; however, beauty is the one of the most adulated, and “although ideas of beauty may ultimately be subjective and unique for every human, there are clear cultural trends that shape these subjective views” (“International Concepts of Beauty”). With today’s innovative science and technology, “modern societies draw closer through global communication and media, international standards of beauty may also be converging toward a universal concept of what it means to be beautiful” (“International Concepts of Beauty”). The mass media; television programs, advertisements on billboards, magazines, films promoting perfection, the fads that countries like the United States, England, South Africa, China, Japan, and Korea deem beautiful, and cultures that are pressured to conform to “Western” ideals encumber women globally as they undergo cosmetic surgery, go on impossible diets that lead to eating disorders, and have instilled women with insecurities about themselves. By generating awareness and
Kim 2
instilling self acceptance in