Negative Body Image

Beauty can be defined in many ways. Ethnicity shouldn’t be an obstacle that keeps someone out of the range of beauty. For example, the narrative of “Senior Picture Day” by Michele Serros, she had been mocked about her Indian nose and in “Brownies” by ZZ Packer, the narrative compared their hairs with the white girls from Troop 909, which as commercial hair. People develop negative body image as a result of European beauty standards and the effect that having only one beauty standard has on non- white population. Body image had been a huge problem for one’s self esteem because many people develop a negative body image by comparing others to themselves or hear about how other discuss their bodies. In addition, they are convinced that only other people are attractive and they are the opposite. One of the problem leads to negative body image was body
Anderberg states that the weight loss and the beauty industries convince millions of women that reduced size and putting a chemical product on their face is beauty (The Culture of Beauty,2010). In “Brownies” by ZZ Packer, the brownies appear to be the victims of the “white” standard of beauty that the society promoted through magazines and television commercials that create a sense of low self-esteem among black women for whom this standard is physically unattainable. When the narrative saw the white girls of Troop 909, she describes them as “instantly real and memorable, with their long, shampoo- commercial hair, straight as spaghetti from the box.” In addition, she also compared one of the brownies that had ever with hair that long, but dislike those girl’s, it looks like a Hawaiian hula dancer (5). Social media and commercials are always a huge influence on the standard of beauty that society might