The perceptions of beauty between Occidental and Oriental countries

Hello dear readers, this time I am writing to you about The perceptions of beauty between Occidental and Oriental countries. The perception of them according to the culture in both of them are important for getting acceptance and status. 


The perceptions of beauty between Occidental and 

Oriental countries:

What is beauty?



 

Beauty is something that without concept produce aesthetic pleasure (Kant, 1790)

Beauty is an abstract concept which has different perceptions depending on the place where you are. For example, in an occidental country such as The United States and, in an oriental country such as South Korea beauty can be associated with their beliefs and cultures.

The United State is a multicultural country people of all nationalities live there that’s the reason why is difficult to define a specific standard of beauty; however, they have a typical stereotype of how American women have to look. Americans consider heart-shape face, blond hair, tallness, color eyes, and thinness as beautiful, but the trendiest characteristic since in the earlies is tan skin was on the peak, and the publicity was everywhere. Magazine covers with tips on how to achieve the perfect tan, everybody wanted to have everyone! The darker you were, the more fun it meant you had.

Americans women want to look like their favorites Hollywood stars, just for staying trendy, and have status without matter their heath. Multicultural countries as The United State have different standards of beauty which is so frivolous, besides that implicated, scarify their natural beauty but according to them is to have status.

South Korea in the same line of oriental countries consider pale skin as a signifier of wealth and prestige, actually, there is a popular proverb in Asia that says "A white skin can hide even the ugliest thing" unfortunately this country has established a great deal of stock in divide for their skin color, as a result, it created firm lines of the division between the wealthy, and the poor. Paleness it is associated with the fancy style life that probably you have inside your home, away from harsh sun and hard labor in the fields under it.

Asian countries such as South Korea are notorious for their strict standards of beauty for women, nevertheless the necessity of Korean women to fit in this standards of beauty are more for feeling good with themselves, Asian culture is notorious also for having a poor quality-gender so women feel the necessity of being accepted for men this ideal of beauty impossible to achieve without surgery make girls stress out and look for a knife support.

Even though The United States and South Korea have a different perception of beauty both aim to fit in the beauty standards established like in Occidental countries consider tan skin as a prestige, in contrast with Oriental countries consider pale skin as a prestige, on the other hand surgery is on the peak in both countries because is girls are looking for beauty. Everybody around the world tries to fit in standards of beauty, it does not mind how extremely or so simple they are, feeling beauty is a common goal.

Standards of beauty are different around the world and it does not exist a specific definition of what beauty is, even though every person interprets beauty in a subjective way feeling beauty is a common wish. Beauty in a different way in depending on the country in where you are, however anybody can determinate what beauty is since beauty is an abstract concept, everybody sees the beauty in a subjective way, the most important is feeling good with ourselves no matter what society says about our fiscal appearance.








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