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Within this padlet I will be discussing the beauty standards throughout many different cultures and comparing them to North American beauty standards. I would like to begin this with outlining the standards in North America first

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Women from North America strive to have full lips with perfectly white and straight teeth. Often they wear heavy "glam" makeup. They groom their eyebrows frequently, and are constantly "put together". Most receive plastic surgery to achieve such goals.

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Their figures are to be small but busty. Their clothing is normally provocative/revealing. They are continuously going to a salon to get their hair and nails done. They feel a need to be perfectly tanned. Often having tattoos and/or piercings.

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Women from Chinese culture value a pale complexion. This is because it displays their wealth, only the poor had tanned skin as they worked in the fields. Women often wear long sleeves and large hats to hide from the sun while at the beach

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Women in France are minimalists. They use less products in their skin care regimens and prefer a natural look when applying makeup. Instead of trying to "perfect" their features with makeup, they are using it to enhance their features. They may use a red lip stick to spice up their look from time to time though.

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The females of the Kayan people from an early age stack brass coils around their necks. As they get older more coils are added. They use the coils to create an illusion of a longer neck, but the coils are actually pushing down the shoulders of these women.

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The Mursi tribe has adopted a body modification into their beauty standards. They cut a girls lip at a young age, when the girl reaches the age of 16 they stretch the lip and place a wooden plate. It is then stretched to the woman's desired diameter.

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Maasai tribes of Kenya also have a body modification in their beauty standards. They pierce and then stretch their ear lobes, using various materials to stretch them. Once the earlobes have been stretched they decorate them with various beads on the lobes and piercings on the tops of the ears.

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As you can see there is not a set of beauty standards that are shared world wide. Some cultures have similar standards, some have polar opposites.

North Americans value being tanned, Chinese strive to have a pale complexion. North Americans tend to have lengthy beauty routines, where the french go for a natural look. While North Americans do change their bodies we may not go the same lengths as those from Kayan people or African tribes.

We as a whole need to be open minded when looking at other cultures, not to judge so quickly. We are all beautiful.

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Images:

http://leanbodystrategy.blogspot.com/2014/09/how-to-get-megan-fox-body.html

https://www.instyle.com/news/khloe-kardashian-baby-girl-photo-explanation

https://www.pinterest.ca/pin/696932111057736946/?lp=true

https://www.teenvogue.com/gallery/french-beauty-skin-care-hair-makeup

https://www.gettyimages.ca/detail/video/close-up-woman-of-long-necked-karen-tribe-with-stock-video-footage/672-37

http://sc2218.wikifoundry.com/page/Mursi+and+the+Lip-Plate

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This is How Beauty Standards Differ Around the World. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.slice.ca/beauty/photos/how-much-beauty-standards-differ-around-the-world/#!mauritania-standard-of-beauty

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8 Beauty Trends In America That Seem Weird To Other Cultures. (2018, July 05). Retrieved from https://www.healthyway.com/content/beauty-trends-in-america-that-seem-weird-to-other-cultures/

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8 Of The World's Weirdest Beauty Standards Ever. (2018, May 09). Retrieved from https://answersafrica.com/8-of-the-worlds-weirdest-beauty-standards-ever.html