Urheilu

Urheilussa ei ole kyse missikisoista, mutta kaipa se jotain kertoo, jos varsinkin menestyvän urheilujoukkueen naiset ovat hyvännäköisiä. Naisten urheilu on myös omalla tavalla mukavaa katsottavaa, koska urheilijat vielä toistaiseksi edustavat pitkälti yhteiskunnan väestönrakennetta kun taas miesten puolella on monissa urheilulajeissa sellainen tilanne, että varsinkin afrikkalaistaustaiset ovat suuresti yliedustettuina muutamissa lajeissa.

Täytyisi käydä läpi kaikkien maiden maajoukkueet ja tehdä tarkempaa vertailua, mutta teen tässä tällaisen huonotasoisen pikatutkimuksen. Jokainen voi tehdä paremman, koska tieteessä on myös kyse siitä, että yritetään kumota toisen väitteet tai todeta ne kokonaan tai osittain oikeiksi.

Pohjois-Korean:

Ruotsin:

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Brasilian:

Vaikkei yhden kuvan perusteella pitäisi arvostella näyttävät ruotsalaiset naiset keskimäärin kauneimmilta.

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Alla on joku vuosi sitten Super Bowl XLVII voittaneen Baltimore Ravens:in cheerleading naiset, joista kannattaa laittaa ainakin merkille valkoisten naisten määrä ja mustien naisten suoristetut hiukset. En äkkiseltään löytänyt itse joukkueesta hyvää kuvaa, mutta kyllä siellä joukkueessa näytti olevan aika paljon suurikokoisia mustia miehiä, että moni valkoinen nainen on varmasti kiimassa, jos ei ulkonäöstä, niin varmasti miesten todennäköisestä suuresta varallisuudesta ja rikkailla mustilla miehillä on ollut usein tapana ottaa jokin muu nainen kuin musta nainen. Baltimoren asukkaista suurin osa on mustia, joten alla olevassa kuvassa näyttäisi olevan paljon valkoisia naisia. Tarkoittaako tämä taas sitä, että mustat naiset ovat paljon rumempia, jonka takia heidän joukosta on vaikeaa löytää naista, jolla olisi pitkät hulmuavat hiukset ja muutenkin hyvä ulkonäkö, eikä kähärää tukkaa ja maskuliinisia kasvoja, jotka lähes samat ovat joukkueen miespuolisilla urheilijoilla, joista valkoiset naiset useimmin tykkäävät.

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"Gendered Races: Implications for Interracial Marriage, Leadership Selection, and Athletic Participation"

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Minusta afrikkalaisten ylivoima on hieno asia. Afrikkaa on vuosisatojen ajan kohdeltu eurooppalaisten ja amerikkalaisten taholta huomattavan törkeästi. Arvoituksellisen maanosan rikkaudet ovat kyllä aina eurooppalaisia kiinnostaneet, mutta Afrikan ihmiset eivät ole olleet eurooppalaisille oikeastaan ihmisiä laisinkaan. Vaikka kestävyysjuoksun ylivalta ei korvaa vuosisatojen vääryyksiä millään tavalla, on silti hyvä asia, että edes jollakin saralla afrikkalaiset ovat polkeneet valkoisen rodun maan rakoon.

Kestävyysjuoksussa erityisen hienoa on, että lajin hallinta on täydellisesti Itä-Afrikassa. Maailman sitkeimmät ja kestävimmät ihmiset tulevat siis alueelta, josta amerikkalaiset eivät aikanaan hakeneet orjia puuvillapelloille, koska itäafrikkalaiset olivat liian heikkoja raskaisiin töihin.

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While much of the tendency for same-race couples to form romantic relationships is likely explained by shared social groups, interests, beliefs and geography, one potentially important factor that has not yet been extensively considered, is that people may perceive members of their own-race to be more physically attractive than members of other-races. Research suggests that physical attractiveness plays a major role in partner choice, particularly for men, but also for women (for reviews see Rhodes, 2006; Gallup and Frederick, 2010; Little, Jones, and DeBruine, 2011), and so it is plausible that people tend to choose own-race partners partially because they perceive own-race partners to be more attractive than other-race partners.

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There is a widespread belief, particularly among proponents of whiteness studies, that notions of beauty are determined by power relationships. The strong and mighty are inevitably ‘beautiful.’ This belief is so entrenched that little concern is shown for counterfactual evidence, such as the medieval trade in fair-skinned women for clients in North Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia.

This trade existed for two reasons. On the one hand, European states were too weak to stop it. On the other, European women were considered beautiful by people in geopolitically stronger states to the south and east. Again, this pattern is inconsistent with the belief that power relationships determine notions of beauty.

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Alla on kuva James G. Martin:in 60-luvulla tekemästä tutkimuksesta, jollaisia näkee harvoin. Tutkimuksessa näytettiin valkoisille ja mustille miehille kuvia valkoisista ja mustista naisista. Tutkimuksessa kävi ilmi valkoisten amerikkalaisten ja afroamerikkalaisten pitävän enimmäkseen parhaimman näköisinä valkoisia naisia. Muistaakseni kuitenkin nigerialaiset miehet pitivät vähän enemmän mustia naisia paremman näköisinä, mutta nigerialaiset näkivät myös valkoiset naiset kauniina. Olen lukenut kyseisen tutkimuksen kuukausia sitten, mutta jostain syystä en löydä tutkimusta ilmaiseksi luettavaksi. Martin taisi lopuksi todeta saman asian, mitä monet sosiologit toistaa, että tähän valkoisten naisten tykkäämiseen vaikuttaisi mahdollisesti valkoisten valta-asema tai jotain sellaista.

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Cephalometric studies have confirmed skeletal and dental differences between Negroes and Caucasians (Altemus, 1960; Altemus, 1963; Drummond, 1968; Kowalski, Nasjleti and Walker, 1974; Jacobson, 1978; Enlow, Pfister, Richardson et al., 1982). Altemus (1960; 1963) compared his sample with Burstone’s Caucasian standards and demonstrated protrusiveness of both hard and soft tissues in the Negroid subjects. While the upper facial profiles were similar in Blacks and Whites, Blacks exhibited more protrusive lips and teeth. Drummond (1968) found that Black Americans had a large, strong tongue and flaccid lips which allowed the teeth to be in a procumbent position. This together with the thickness of the lips made the lower face appear very full. Kowalski, Nasjleti and Walker (1974) found significant variation between Caucasians and Negroes in variables such as the proclination of the lower incisor, the degree of maxillary prognathism, the cant of the occlusal plane and interincisal angle. Jacobson (1978) demonstrated cephalometrically that South African Blacks had shorter, more anteriorly placed maxillae, shorter ramus height and severe proclination of lower incisors. Enlow et al. (1982) showed differences in features such as ramus width, ramus angulation and the orientation of the middle cranial fossa between Whites and Blacks.

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Martin (1964) explored the issue of race and ethnicity in his assessment of female beauty. He used 10 photographs of African Americans from Ebony and Sepia magazines which were ranked in order of aesthetic appeal by a group of 50 African American, 50 Caucasian American and 50 Nigerian students. Each group judged the beauty of the female face and the results showed that both African and Caucasian Americans preferred the more Caucasian appearing photographs while the Nigerian students preferred the more Negroid-appearing photographs. Thomas (1979) and De Loach (1978) both evaluated the soft tissue profile of the American Black woman. Thomas surveyed Black and White orthodontists and found that both groups preferred Black females with a mildly convex and straighter profile. De Loach used the same 10 profiles and surveyed 224 Black females instead. The females in his sample, like the orthodontists in Thomas’ investigation, also preferred the straighter profile.

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With respect to gender, the findings of this study indicated that males and females were similar in their choice of the preferred facial profile ( Tables 4.7 and 4.8 ). This was in agreement with the findings of Polk et al. (1995) and Morar (2007) who demonstrated the preference of both males and females for relatively flat facial profiles. A noteworthy finding of this study was the consensus amongst the peer groups regarding the relative unattractiveness of the images representing the extremes of profile protrusiveness and retrusiveness (Tables 4.1 to 4.4). This observation lends support to the arguments of evolutionary theorists and others who believe that ‘average’ faces are beautiful (Edler, 2001).

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Clear ethnic differences in profile preference were demonstrated where Blacks preferred a greater degree of protrusiveness when compared with the selections made by Indians, Coloureds and Whites.

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Google kuvahaulla päädyin korealaiseen kauneusaiheiseen sivustoon, josta löytyi kolmen perinteisen rodun naisista tehdyt keskiarvoiset symmetriset yhdistelmä kuvat. Näiden kuvien perusteella ei pidä olettaa ainoastaan tämän näköisten naisten olevan kauniita, mutta ei sitä varmaan moni voi kiistää, etteikö nämä keskimääräiset naiset olisi hyvännäköisiä. Olen tällaisista kuvista aiemmin kertonut, mutta laittakaa kuvissa merkille ihon virheettömyys tai tasaisuus, joka on yksi merkittävä tekijä kauneudessa, jota varsinkin naiset puutereilla ja voiteilla yrittävät ylläpitää, koska akneinen, ryppyinen ja muutenkin maksaläiskäinen iho näyttää epäterveeltä ja vanhalta. Toiseksi näyttää siltä, että ihmiset tykkäävät yleensä keskimääräisistä kasvoista ja vartaloista esim. omassa etnisessä ryhmässä, koska aivot mahdollisesti päättelee niiden olevan parhaimmat elinympäristöön.

Naisilla kasvot ovat pitkälti samankaltaiset ja tällaiset sirot kasvot ovat myös feminiiniset, mutta siitä huolimatta näistä kuvista pystyy vielä tunnistamaan rodun. Ihmiset voivat hyvinkin olla tulevaisuudessa enemmän tämännäköisiä, jos tällaisista kasvoista tykätään enemmän ja tällaista tulevaisuutta tietysti monet mokuttajat ja antirasistit toivovat, että ihmiset olisivat nykyistä enemmän samannäköisiä. Kuitenkin voimme esimerkiksi nähdä europidiä esittävän naisen olevan vähän tumma vaikka myös vaaleat eurooppalaiset naiset ovat myös kauniita ja esimerkiksi mustalla naisella on vastaavasti nenä aika pieni verrattuna siihen, mitä se on yleensä mustilla.

Aasialainen nainen näyttää nuorimmalta tai tyttömäiseltä luultavasti osaltaan vaaleammasta ihonväristä johtuen. Tämä on mielestäni tyypillisistä keskimäärin aasialaisille naisille, että heillä on vähän yleisemmin tyttömäiset kasvonpiirteet. Tämä johtuu siitä, että aasialaisilla kasvonpiirteet jäävät yleisemmin lättäniksi varsinkin sivusta katsottuna, jonka takia kasvoissa ei ole yleisesti samalla tavalla muotoja kuin europideillä tai negrideillä, joista esim. negrideillä esiintyy yleisemmin huomattavaa prognatismia tai kasvojen alaosan eteenpäin työntymistä aiheuttaen omalta osaltaan maskuliinisuutta. Kyllä myös muiden rotujen naisten kasvoissa voidaan havaita maskuliinisuutta, kuten huomattavaa kulmikkuutta ja tunnetusti aasialaisilla on huomattavat poskiluut. Tästä voi aina kiistellä, että mitkä tekijät ovat maskuliinisia kasvoissa, mutta lähtökohtaisesti kasvot naisella pitäisi olla sirommat verrattuna mieheen ja täytyy myös muistaa kauneuden olevan myös vähän katsojan silmissä.

Mustien naisten osalta on varsinkin tuotu kriittisesti esille, että jotta musta nainen voisi olla kaunis tulee hänen yleensä olla vähän kuin suklaaseen dipattu valkoinen nainen, joka ei ole huomattavalle osalle mustista naisista mahdollista ellei sitten käytä tekohiuksia, vaalenna vähän ihoa ja käy kauneusleikkauksessa. Tämä sitten aiheuttaa monille mustille naisille paineita, kun kauneusihanne on tällainen, josta sitten on yleensä tapana syyttää valkoisia tai eurooppalaisia ja myös mustia miehiä.

The answer to what makes a face attractive has been debated for generations and studied in different disciplines. The current study investigated African American and Caucasian males' evaluation (attraction) to racialized female faces. Faces varied from 100% African American to 100% Caucasian (and included variations that were 25% of either group, or 50% of both groups). Twenty African American and 30 Caucasian men each viewed ten faces, and evaluated them in terms of their appearance and the likelihood that the men would interact with (befriend, date, or marry) the person pictured. Findings revealed that African American men found the 100% African American face attractive (and more positive in other respects), with decreasing evaluations for the 75%, 50% and 25% African American faces. African American men evaluated the 100% Caucasian face more positively than the mixed race faces. White men, in contrast, viewed the 100% African American face as least attractive (and least favorable in other respects), and the Caucasian face most attractive (and favorable). Findings were discussed in terms of the significance for stereotyping, attractiveness, race relations, and future research.

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Research in the area of facial attractiveness has examined the role of race in the perception of beauty, revealing that regardless of our own skin color, we tend to prefer light skin to dark skin in most matters of choice. Subsequently, the current research, utilizing morphed faces combined in varying degrees Black, White, and Asian facial characteristics, was expected to corroborate with past research by showing that participants found the “pure” White face the most attractive and the “pure” Black face the least attractive. Instead, participants found least attractive the “pure” Asian face. The results are discussed in terms of prior research with a focus on the concept of familiarity.

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A visual preference procedure was used to examine preferences among faces of different ethnicities (African, Asian, Caucasian, and Middle Eastern) in Chinese 3-month-old infants exposed only to Chinese faces. The infants demonstrated a preference for faces from their own ethnic group. Alongside previous results showing that Caucasian infants exposed only to Caucasian faces prefer same-race faces (Kelly et al., 2005) and that Caucasian and African infants exposed only to native faces prefer the same over the other-race faces (Bar-Haim, Ziv, Lamy, & Hodes, 2006), the findings reported here (a) extend the same-race preference observed in young infants to a new race of infants (Chinese), and (b) show that cross-race preferences for same-race faces extend beyond the perceptually robust contrast between African and Caucasian faces.

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Research involving race as a criterion for various social choices indicates that race may rival attractiveness for the determination of dating choices. This possibility was explored in two experiments involving “desirability for a date” ratings of black and white stimulus persons who varied in attractiveness. Experiment 1 results indicated that white male and female subjects gave appreciable weight to race and attractiveness, but females gave race more weight than attractiveness, while attractiveness was given more weight than race by males. The interaction between race and attractiveness had approximately the same form for males and females: attractive black stimulus persons were lumped together with unattractive stimulus persons.

Female subjects in Experiment 2, who were informed about an opportunity to date a stimulus person of their choice before seeing slides of stimulus persons, tended to discount attractiveness as a criterion for choices. None of these subjects were willing to accept an actual date. It was noted that race may be a stronger rival to attractiveness relative to the more abstract factors with which attractiveness has been compared, because race, like attractiveness, is highly concrete and visible.

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Being that you are Asian, it definitely limits you to … the amount of different girls you can go for. Like if you are an Asian guy, girls you can pretty much go for are Asian girls. Going for other ethnicities is definitely like much harder. Like especially if you don't live in a large metropolitan area, then it's just difficult. It's just like not widely accepted, and girls don't consider Asian guys…. I think it's just like self imposed. …. I think like to some extent my standards are too high.

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Some members of stigmatized groups, such as Asian women, may be more likely to experience negative self-evaluations after exposure to a mainstream beauty standard than members of other stigmatized groups, such as Black women. In this study, 54 Asian women, 52 Black women, and 64 White women, were exposed to mainstream standards of beauty and compared themselves to these idealized images. It was hypothesized that although Black women would find these comparisons irrelevant, Asian women would see these targets as relevant for their comparisons, reflecting their striving for mainstream beauty standards. The results indicated that Black women did not find mainstream standards as relevant to themselves, and reported positive self-evaluations generally and about their bodies in particular. Asian women, on the other hand, responded differently than Black women and were more likely to endorse mainstream beauty standards in a similar fashion to White women. As predicted, Asian women also experienced greater dissatisfaction with their bodies than did Black women.

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The purpose of this study was to assess how women's perceptions of themselves and their bodies vary by race/ethnicity and class. One hundred and fourteen female students (45 African-American, 69 Caucasian) from two Connecticut community colleges were surveyed. We predicted that African-American women will report higher levels of self-esteem and a more positive body image than Caucasian women. These predictions were supported. Also as predicted, African-American women report possessing more masculine traits and that men of their race tend less to prefer thin, small figured women. Controlling for these“protective factors” substantially reduces the relationship between race/ethnicity and self-concept.African-American women's racial identity and exposure to the dominant culture did not relate to self-concept measures.

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What does it take to find a member of a different race attractive? In this research, we suggest that for Whites, attraction to Asians may be based, in part, on stereotypes and variations in Asians' racial appearance. Study 1 reveals that Asians are stereotyped as being more feminine and less masculine than other racial groups-characteristics considered appealing for women but not for men to possess. Study 2 examines how variation in racial appearance, phenotypic prototypicality (PP), shapes the degree to which Asians are gender stereotyped and how PP relates to perceptions of attractiveness. Higher PP Asian men are perceived as being less masculine and less physically attractive than lower PP Asian men. These findings inform theory on how within-group variation in racial appearance affects stereotyping and other social outcomes.

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Caucasian and Latino profiles received over 50% more responses as compared to African American and Asian profiles. Furthermore, Caucasian and Latino males were over 75% more likely to get a private instant message invitation than their African American counterparts and over 50% more likely compared to Asian Americans. In all 8 city/site comparison groups Black men received the lowest number of responses followed by Asian men. White men received the highest number of responses in Los Angeles and Chicago, while Latino men ranked highest in number of hits and responses in San Francisco and New York. This was an unexpected finding. It is possible that this results from the fact that Latinos are visually the closest to Caucasian in terms of features and skin tones, however these results bear further investigation. Nonetheless, a clear picture emerges from the data: White and Latino men receive the most responses and invitations; Black and Asian men receive the fewest.

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The inter-racial marriage gap that opened in the past 50 years is generally attributed to a decline in the availability of young black marriageable men. We contend that the associated shortage of desirable men in the marriage market provides those black men who are sought after with the opportunity to attain a high status spouse, which has placed a premium on black women with lighter skin. We provide evidence, based on data drawn from the Multi City Study of Urban Inequality, consistent with this hypothesis. Our theoretical analysis of the marriage market reveals that marriage promotion policies to increase the desire to marry on the part of young black women will serve to exacerbate the importance attached to skin shade.

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Likewise, in Maracay, Venezuela, I experienced a similar level of invisibility from a 6-year-old girl, who can be easily labeled a black girl based on her skin complexion. While attending a family gathering with my wife and some friends, this girl, who was leaving, kissed everybody goodbye except me. I was sitting next to my white, American and Norwegian friends, and she jumped on and kissed all of them, but skipped me. When my wife, my mother-in-law, and her own parents, out of embarrassment, asked this girl why she did not kiss me, she replied saying, "A mi no me gusta a los negros" (I do not like black people).

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African American female facial anthropometric measures, especially those of the horizontal dimension, differ significantly from those of young white subjects. The average African American woman does not fit the neoclassical standard of facial proportion.

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Although the average KA (Korean American) woman's facial anthropometric measurements were very different from those of the NAW (North American white) woman, attractive KA women reflected many of the facial features of NAW women. These findings support the need for ethnically sensitive facial canons and further research into transcultural aesthetics.

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Paul explains that anyone who could ‘pass’ as American is classified muzungu, however his definition of ‘American’ is stereotypically Caucasian.

“A muzungu, let me say all of those people…like even the white-white skin…those people. Let me say not Africans.”
“Not Africans? So would you say that Indians are muzungu?”
“Indians are not muzungu.”
“And Chinese?”
“Chinese are not muzungu.”
“Not?”
“Ya…You know people know that the only muzungu you call a muzungu are from America, Russia those places. The Chinese the way they look, they know. Is it a muzungu? No, it is a Chinese. Is that a muzungu? No, Indian.”
“So am I a muzungu?”
“Yes you are a muzungu…because if you say ‘I am from US,’ they will say ‘yes.’’
“They will believe me?”
“Yes, because you look like them. But now a Chinese, they can’t lie. Japanese, they can’t lie. Indian they can’t lie.”

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However, no matter what type of cosmetic product a Chinese consumer uses, she cannot permanently turn her skin into the pallor of a typical Aryan Caucasian model’s. First, she fundamentally cannot alter her innate DNA composition.

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Skin-whitening is only one facet of a larger, rapidly growing industry in East Asia for female body modification practices that physically alter Asian bodies to better emulate Western features. These practices include eyelid surgeries where a woman’s eyelid crease is cut to create an eyelid fold (making one’s eyes appear bigger, rounder, and more Western looking), breast enhancements, hair dye treatments that turn naturally brown or black Asian hair platinum blonde, and even leg elongation surgery.

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One of the things I always felt growing up as someone of mixed racial heritage was that I didn’t fit anywhere. On the one hand, I was presented with the white image of beauty as the blue-eyed, blond haired, tall, skinny, big-breasted All-American girl. On the other hand was the Asian image of beauty as petite, slender, long dark hair, exotic features, and pale skin, actresses like Lucy Liu, Ming Na Wen, and the women in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. The only thing I had in common with any of those images was that I was fair-skinned, otherwise I never felt like I measured up.

For people of mixed backgrounds, you kind of fall through the cracks when you look at fashion magazines. It’s also true that Asian women try to look more white. My mother, for instance, puts tape on her eyelids to make them look rounder. One of my Korean friends once told me I was lucky that I had pale skin because when she went to Korea, people told her she looked like "a country girl" because she’s naturally tan. There are also operations that some girls get to make their eyes look more "white," and some girls get nose jobs to make their noses look more "white."

This doesn’t occur only in the States either; in Korea, plastic surgery is a huge industry. It’s because they also get Western fashion magazines there and are presented with the Caucasian standard of beauty and will get nose jobs, fix their eyes, and get operations on their jaws to make their faces look less round, less Asian and more white. When you look at women like Jennifer Lopez and Beyonce Knowles, who both have blond highlights and look like white women with tans, you realize that racism still plays itself out in what we are presented with as "beautiful."

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Studies of female beauty reveal light skin and Eurocentric features, such as long straight hair and smaller noses, to be more appealing than darker skin and Afrocentric features, such as kinky hair, broader noses, and larger lips (Hill, 2002; Swami, Furnham, & Joshi, 2008).

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I’m not trying to be racist but I think dark skinned and dark skinned should be together and light skinned and light skinned should be together and whites and whites should be together”. When asked if she could elaborate, she stated, “Because it’s [within-race and between-race mixing] just not right…I don’t know, it’s just something that irritates me about it.

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The results from the paired t-test, one-way ANOVA and with multiple comparisons had shown that only symmetrical Indian faces are preferred. For the other races, symmetrical males did not score significantly higher than normal faces. The results from the one-way ANOVA test with multiple comparisons done o degree of facial asymmetry showed that the horizontal degree of facial symmetry is similar for all four races without significant difference, the vertical degree of facial symmetry is similar for all races except for Indians who had an exceptionally high level of vertical degree of symmetry. Results from one-way ANOVA done on normal and symmetrical faces had shown two trends. The first trend is that Chinese faces are ranked the lowest whereas the second trend is that Caucasian faces ranked the highest of all races. The results reflected that there could a racial element in the perception in addition to the symmetry of the face in a multicultural and multiracial society.

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Löysin mielenkiintoisen tutkimuksen, jossa puhutaan paljon roduista ja kauneudesta liittyen varsinkin mainontaan kuinka tutkijoiden mukaan olisi parempi tuoda varsinkin amerikkalaisissa mainoksissa nykyistä enemmän esille muiden rotujen ihmisiä, eikä enimmäkseen laihoja valkoisia naisia ja maskuliinisia valkoisia miehiä.

Deracialsation is a term used to deliberately change your ethnicity by using cosmetic surgery procedures. In today’s western culture we are constantly bombarded by the media through television, advertisement and magazines with exposure to the idealistic image for men and women, with the dominance by many cultures being a preferred western image, which ironically contains a pale complexion. It would be hard to not be influenced by such forceful and persuading media campaigns to conform to a certain image. Unsurprisingly deracialisation surgery is flourishing in eastern countries where it has become surprisingly easy with little restrictions for surgeons to change your identity within a few hours, with the majority of patients travelling there to obtain the apparently ideal Caucasian features. As the BBC 4 documentary named ‘Bleach, Nip Tuck: the white beauty myth’ discusses, foreign people living in today’s communities feel the western look forced upon and feel judged for being a different nationality in a world which dictates us to look a certain way, and to fit into their social groups they need to conform to the ideal western image.

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Despite this, the ‘melting pot’ has largely been utilized to develop marketing communications. Images of thin Caucasian women and hyper-masculine Caucasian men are used to sell products and endorse brands with only 5% of the world’s population able to achieve this ideal. Those that can’t achieve this ideal make attempts through cosmetic treatments, excessive dieting and exercise. This is evident when observing cosmetic-industry figures, and with total 2012 revenue of $54.9 billion, the US is the biggest cosmetic market in the world (Schulz 2013). Furthermore, American consumers spent $11 billion on cosmetic treatments in 2012 (Babbitt 2013) with a significant increase in double eyelid surgery amongst Asian-American consumers (this gives the crease of skin between the eyelashes and eyebrow generally associated with Caucasian eyes). Media personalities like Oprah have commented on the procedure saying, “That would be like me having surgery to not look black. I don’t get it” (Stokel-Walker 2013). This begs the question, if American consumers consider the media portrayed beauty as the ‘ideal’, does this then imply that consumers, regardless of race, will perceive Caucasian images to be most attractive? The answer to this question is of critical importance to advertisers in the US because of the significant shifts in the ethnic makeup of the American population; Caucasians are already a minority among children under 5 years of age, and they will become a minority in the entire US population in less than three decades (Yen 2013).

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Even as the world’s marketers try to become more global, there remain strong inhibiting forces (Grier, Brumbaugh, and Thornton 2006), namely race. There is currently a pressing need to determine how best to advertise to ethnic minorities (Grier et al. 2006). A primary reason that has been offered for a lack of ethnically diverse faces in marketing stimuli is a fear of negative attitudes from the majority Caucasian population or a ‘white backlash’ (Brumbaugh 2002). So despite the growth of ethnic minority groups in many societies, most advertisers have failed to reflect today’s realities and have tended towards excluding or minimizing ethnic minorities from their advertising mix (Grier et al. 2006). In fashion, models from diverse cultural backgrounds tend to be used more as a novelty with models often rejected based on their ethnic background (Padilla and Perez 2003).

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To address this issue in relation to facial attractiveness, it is important to first look at biological drivers. One of the most fundamental problems for any organism is mate selection. Physical cues play a significant role in the selection of romantic partners (Winkielman et al. 2006), thus facial attractiveness has a biological function. Scientists have identified certain characteristics that are believed to reveal one’s reproductive potential and therefore lead to higher ratings of attractiveness. For instance:

Pathogen resistance: Men and women in cultures with high pathogen prevalence such as a weaker immune system (e.g., Nigeria, Zambia, and India) rated facial attractiveness as a more important trait in selection of their long-term mates as compared to men and women from cultures with low pathogen prevalence (e.g., West Germany, Sweden, and Norway) (Winkielman et al. 2006).

Symmetry: Bilateral symmetry is thought to be a phenotypic indicator of a pathogen-free organism. Under ideal developmental conditions, paired physical features develop in synchronicity (Rhodes 2006). Evolutionary theorists believe that only the hardiest and healthiest of a given population possess the ability to develop symmetrically in harsh environmental conditions (Rhodes 2006). Therefore, a person with a symmetrical face is likely to receive higher attractiveness ratings.

Race: Race is considered an important element with visual perceptions. Studies examining preferences among faces of different races, found that infants demonstrated favoritism for faces from their own ethnic group (Bar-Haim, Ziv, Lamy, and Hodes 2006).

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From an evolutionary standpoint, perceptions of facial attractiveness could be explained through socio-biological theory and mating behavior which postulates that a biological basis exists for the phenomenon of people preferring others of the same ethnicity or race (McPhersonet al. 2001). Previous studies have proposed that “like attracts like”, in other words, people seek mates similar to themselves (GilWhite 2001). This is attributed to Genetic Similarity theory which explains ethnic nepotism. People’s need to identify and be with others from their own race is said to be due to one’s genes producing effects that allow bearers to recognize and favor each other (McPherson et al. 2001). Further support is offered by the homophily principle (GilWhite 2001) which explains that similarity breeds connection and limits people’s social worlds in a way that has important consequences for the information they receive. In addition to finding their racial match more appealing, people are more likely to sit in closer physical proximity to those from their own ethnic background (McPherson et al. 2001). Tajfel (2010) also explored this notion acknowledging that people define themselves based on the groups to which they belong.

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For the purpose of this research, it’s important to clarify the distinctions between race, ethnicity, ethnic identity, and acculturation. Throughout this study we make a distinction between race and ethnicity. When we mention race in our empirical work, we refer to an objectively determined classification. In contrast, we use ethnicity as a self-perception. Ethnicity broadly groups individuals based on race and culture of origin (Phinney 1996). Therefore, ethnicity is nested under race, with many ethnic groups (e.g., Malay, Han, Korean, Japanese) nested within a given race (Asian). Race can be typically identified from physical features, while the same is not always possible for ethnicity. Moreover, ethnicity ignores important differences among individuals (Phinney 1996), who vary in their ethnic identity and degree of acculturation.

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A more recent study in the UK found that young people from ethnic minorities were twice as likely to have a circle of friends exclusively from their own community (Phillips 2005), and 95% of Caucasian Britons indicated that all or most of their friends were also Caucasian. Potential conflict has been attributed to avoidance of cross-cultural interaction. For instance, Asian-Americans who wish to pursue an interracial relationship often face objection from their parents (Nguyen, Messe, and Stollak 1999). In addition, Tsai, Ying and Lee (2000) concluded that couples of similar ethnic backgrounds tend to experience fewer communication and understanding obstacles. This desire to pursue a relationship with someone from the same ethnic background has been attributed to a lack of exposure to people from different cultures and xenophobia (Nguyen et al. 1999).

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Social identity theory (Tajfel 2010) suggests a strong relationship between one’s self concept and group identification. Tajfel (2010) found that a positive identity is derived from favorable comparisons between those most similar to oneself. Unlike a national identity, an ethnic identity cannot be chosen by the individual; rather it is determined at birth (Tajfel 2010). Furthermore, one’s ethnicity is clearly visible whereas one’s national identity is not obvious to the observer.

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In our experiment, we used frontal black and white photos of 30 male and 30 female faces equally distributed in three racial groups. The 20 Asian faces were drawn from the CUHK Face Sketch Database (Wang and Tang 2009) while the 20 African and 20 Caucasian faces were drawn from the face database by the Center for Vital Longevity (Minear and Park 2004). We chose Caucasian, African and Asian faces because, as argued earlier, our focus is on racial matching between subjects and stimuli. It is easier to measure the typicality of these three main races in terms of their anthropometric features.

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While Figure 2 might be only meaningful to the specialist (anthropologist, plastic surgeon, etc.), it becomes intuitive when considered along with Figure 3, which displays the scores for each face in the same SAVE dimensions. Comparing Figures 2 and 3, one concludes that the three racial groups are generally different in their facial features, because they are well separated from each other in the latent SAVE space.

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The results in Table 4 show that in general, subjects tended to rate African faces lower in perceived beauty than others, with a negative (-.05) coefficient for Africaness, statistically significant at the p<.04 level.

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Most important to us, subjects give higher ratings when the stimulus matches their race, thereby confirming our first hypothesis H1, which states that people tend to find more attractive faces that are more representative of their own race.

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Our decision to focus on racial matching rather than ethnic matching was predicated on the difficulty in objectively measuring the degree of matching in ethnicity (rather than race), both in the physical measures (would the anthropometric features of a Cuban of Spanish descent describe a Hispanic or Caucasian?) and self-classification in an ethnic group (would the Cuban of Spanish descent self-classify as Hispanic or Caucasian?). One would expect that the physical features distinguishing Hispanic physiognomies from Caucasians would be less accentuated than with Asian and African features, although these are aspects that deserve further investigation. Given the growing importance of Hispanic consumers in the US market, and the recent growth of the middle class in Latin America (Danel et al. 2012), it would be useful to extend our research to include Hispanic faces as stimuli.

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Yllä olevasta lähde linkistä löytyvästä tutkimuksesta löytyi myös kuvia ja kaavioita kolmen suurrodun edustajien ulkonäöstä ja niiden eroista. Tutkijat toivat esille kuinka kaikki johonkin rotuun kuuluvat eivät olleet ulkonäöltään rodulleen tyypillisiä, mutta nähtävästi tämä johtui myös siitä, että esim. yksi afrikkalaiseksi sanottu nainen (BF1) oli todennäköisesti mulatti. Tämä on kuitenkin selvää, etteivät ihmiset ole samalla tavalla rotuja kuin esim. tarkalleen jalostetut koirat, mutta siitä huolimatta luokittelu ei ole suurimmaksi osaksi mahdotonta.

Kauneustutkimuksessani olen tuonut paljon esille kuinka maskuliinisuus on yksi merkittävä tekijä sekarotuisissa parisuhteissa voidaan alla olevasta kuvasta todeta mustan miehen olevan maskuliinisin jo tummemman ihonvärin takia, joka vastaavasti on kielteinen tekijä naiselle, koska tutkimusten perusteella miehet yleisemmin tykkäävät vaaleammasta ihonväristä naisella. Mustalla miehellä voidaan havaita olevan rodulleen tyypillisesti levein nenä, joka muistaakseni oli yhden tutkijankin mukaan maskuliinisuutta lisäävä tekijä, kun taas aasialaisella ja eurooppalaisella miehellä voidaan havaita olevan leveydeltään pienempi nenä, jotka tekevät heistä nenän osalta feminiinisempiä verrattuna mustaan mieheen.

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Lihavuus

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Alta löytyy mielenkiintoista tietoa siitä, että mustien miesten kanssa pariutuvat valkoiset naiset olisivat rumempia ja lihavia. Tällaisia väitteitä näkee usein keskustelupalstoilla myös mustien naisten kertomana, mutta vaikka tässä olisi enimmäkseen tai keskimäärin totuutta on kuitenkin myös kauniita naisia, jotka ovat valmiita pariutumaan mustan miehen kanssa. Tutkimuksissa kerrotaan muutenkin yleisesti, että länsimaalaiset miehet eivät enimmäkseen tykkää paksuista naisista, mutta mustien keskuudessa suhtaudutaan tunnetusti kurvikkuuteen ja lihavuuteen myönteisemmin vaikka on myös olemassa muutamia tutkimuksia kuinka mustilla miehillä naismaku painon osalta olisi muuttumassa samanlaiseksi kuin muilla miehillä.

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Finally, our results suggest that parents of multiracial infants are typically in lower quality relationships than the parents of mono-racial infants, and that relationship quality accounts for some of the differences in birth outcomes.

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Our finding that white women who do not fit conventional norms of beauty (i.e. those who are not thin or athletic-looking) are much more likely to include black men as possible dates than other white women is consistent with the notion that cultural ideals about beauty shape racial preferences. Much research has shown that, in dating and marriage markets, physical attractiveness is a more valued trait for women than men (Stewart, Stinnet and Rosenfeld 2000). Therefore, an openness to dating black men among these white women may actually reflect their knowledge that they do not fit the conventional beauty standards that appeal to white men.

Among white women, one of the most striking findings is that white women who describe themselves as slim, slender, athletic, fit or average are nearly seven times as likely to exclude black men as dates as women who describe themselves as thick, voluptuous, a few extra pounds, or large.

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Lihavuuteen ja samalla myös kauneuteen liittyen tuli vastaan tutkimus Yhdysvalloista, jossa ei kuitenkaan ole yhteenvedon perusteella paljoakaan uutta, että valkoisille naisille lihavuus on kauneuden osalta ongelmallisempi verrattuna mustiin naisiin, koska valkoiset miehet eivät tykkää lihavista naisista samalla tavalla kuin mustat miehet. Tämä on sitten yksi merkittävä syy siihen, miksi mustat miehet yleisen väitteen mukaan pariutuvat lihavien valkoisten naisten kanssa ja miksi valkoiset miehet eivät keskimäärin yhtä paljon tykkää suuremmista mustista naisista vaan pienemmistä aasialaisista naisista. Jos mustat naiset olisivat laihempia olisi sillä varmasti myönteinen vaikutus valkoisten, että aasialaisten miesten halukkuuteen pariutua mustien naisten kanssa.

This paper investigates the relationships between body weight, race, and attractiveness in appearance and personality among adolescents. We study a sample of 5,947 (non-Hispanic) white and black girls age 12 to 18 who were interviewed by a group of 338 interviewers. We find that overweight and obese white female adolescents are, respectively, 23% and 40% less likely, on average, to be perceived as physically attractive compared to normal-weight white girls. The physical appearance penalties are significantly smaller for overweight and obese black girls compared to white girls. These findings suggest that being overweight or obese is costly due to its negative impact on inner and outer perceived beauty, providing an explanation for the observed stigmatization of overweight and obesity among women in labor and relationship markets. The smaller beauty penalties for black girls above the normal-weight range suggest that the range of body sizes considered attractive may be wider for black females.

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Historically, females who had large body figures and considered overweight were seen as the epitome of beauty within the African American culture. More specifically, African American females with large body figures were perceived by African American males as smart, sexy, employable, desirable, wanted, marriatable, and rulers of their households. However, as African American males acculturate into the dominate culture via their college attendance, their perceptions of body figure attractiveness may begin to change towards perceptions that are similar to those of the dominate culture. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine African American male college students’ perceptions of body figure attractiveness. Participants in this study consisted of 227 African American male college students between 18 and 31 years of age from two Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and two Traditionally White Institutions (TWIs) across the Southeast and Northeast regions of the United States. Findings from this study revealed that African American male college students’ perceptions of body figure attractiveness are changing towards those similar of the dominant culture. Thus, implications are discussed relative to the potential influence in which African American males’ perceived body figure attractiveness may have on African American females.

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This study examines the impact of apparent facial adiposity on assessments of attractiveness and likeability. In this online experiment, Amazon Mechanical Turk participants made more than 20,000 assessments of attractiveness and likeability of facial photographs. Participants were randomly assigned to view one of three different versions of a photo that we altered, using Adobe Photoshop, to produce three different apparent BMI levels: low (less than 24), medium (24−28, inclusive), and high (greater than 28). The experiment aimed to identify differences in how individuals of varying genders, races, and sexual orientations perceive attractiveness and likeability. Participants generally rated photos with higher apparent BMIs as being less attractive and likeable, but this “BMI tax” was much more severe for assessments of attractiveness than likeability. Males rated female photos monotonically lower as apparent photo BMI increased, but women tended to rate medium BMIs higher than low BMIs in terms of both attractiveness and likeability. Gay men rated male photos higher than other viewer groups (even higher than heterosexual women), but gay women rated female photos lower than other viewer groups (even lower than heterosexual men). White photos were rated more attractive than likeable, but African-American photos were rated more likeable than attractive. Our intra-group comparisons of randomly-assigned participants provide causal evidence that higher apparent BMI in the form of increased facial adiposity causes participants to reduce assessments of both attractiveness and likeability, but that the BMI treatment effects manifest substantial heterogeneity across both participant and photo demographic groups.

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Google Scholar:sta tuli vastaan iranilainen tutkimus, jossa tarkastellaan maassa ilmeneviä nenäleikkauksia, joista olen tainnut itsekin kauan sitten kertoa ja tuoda myös esille kuinka youtube:sta löytyy mielenkiintoisia dokumentteja iranilaisten arjesta. Iranilaiset naiset ovat nähdäkseni hyvin kauniita, mutta hyvin monella heistä, kuten myös monella eurooppalaisella on ongelmana vähän liian suuri nenä. Lähi-idän ihmisillä ilmenee keskimäärin enemmän huomattavan suurta korkeaa nenätyyppiä verrattuna eurooppalaisiin, kun taas itäaasialaisilla ja mustilla afrikkalaisilla tahtoo nenä olla yleisemmin matalampi ja leveämpi. Kauneustutkimusten perusteella naisella nenä ei saisi viedä silmiltä huomiota ja sen pitäisi muutenkin olla pieni mieluiten silmien välisellä alueella sijaitseva suorahko, sopivan korkea ja alhaalta katsottuna kolmiomainen.

There is an increasing trend in the world population toward doing nose surgery. Aesthetic surgery of the nose is one of the most popular ones, especially in this part of the world. The outcome of this sophisticated operation is directly related to the skill and knowledge of the surgeon and his good understanding of aesthetics and psychology. Iranian surgeons have developed great success in this field and their ideas are spreading in the world. Looking at Google search engine under “nose surgery”, you find out that several famous international press agencies refer to Iran as the world capital of nose surgery. This operation was introduced in this country about 50 years ago and since then more surgeons and patients became interested in doing this procedure. This trend persuaded us to write a background and current overview for colleagues who are interested in this subject.

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Tässä kauneusihanteessa on varmasti jossain määrin kyse länsimaiden vaikutuksesta, mutta ei se nähtävästi poista sitä, että ihmiset myös näkevät tällaisen pienen länsimaisen kauneusihanteen mukaisen nenän kauniina naisella. Tästä huolimatta ei pitäisi nenistä tehdä liian samankaltaisia vaan ihmisten pitäisi osata nähdä erilaisuus kauniina, mutta sille ei välttämättä lopulta mitään voi jos ihmiset eivät vaan yleisesti näe liian suurta nenää kauniina naisella vaan nenän tulee olla sopiva kasvoihin, jota se ei aina valitettavasti ole. Voidaan sanoa, että vaikka ihmisillä onkin varsinkin nenän osalta huomattavia ulkonäöllisiä eroja, niin kauneusleikkaukset tekevät yleisesti ihmisille enemmän samankaltaisemmat nenät.

A woman who received her surgery before the revolution expressed envy for Europeans and Americans (read: whites) who are fortunate to have small, beautiful noses and are not in need of surgery. Another woman admitted she finds the white nose most attractive. When asked about whether these types of noses are objectively more beautiful or whether they have been made so by the political, economic and cultural power and influence of the white race, she expressed agnosticism. Nonetheless, she went on: “I think even in a hundred years, a smaller nose will be more beautiful than a big, wide nose.”

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Joskus on näkynyt väitteitä kuinka naiset vapaaehtoisesti käyttävät huivia tai kaapua. Varmasti sellaisia naisia löytyy, mutta eiköhän lopulta naiset ole hyvin samankaltaisia, jonka takia myös moni iranilainen nainen heittäisi huivin menemään ja antaisi hiusten vaikka hulmuta tuulessa, jos saisi, kun nyt moni iranilainen nainen tuo tätä halua mahdollisesti esille laittamalla vähän hiuksia esille. Itse en ole Iraniin tarkemmin perehtynyt, mutta tietääkseni naisten asema maassa on huomattavan parempi verrattuna moneen muslimimaahan, jonka takia iranilaisten naisten sallitaan varmaan osaltaan läpisormien katsoen olla aika muodikkaita.

Believe it or not, Iran is the second-largest cosmetics market in the Middle East in terms of revenue, behind Saudi Arabia, and the world’s seventh biggest. Women in Iran may wear more make-up than in some western countries.

The Islamic tradition in Iran does not prohibit perfumes or cosmetics. It is said that even Mohammed wore perfume. So, one’s face and make-up are their own form of personal expression in a world of covered heads and loose clothing.

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Of the many ways in which revolutionary ideals have backfired in the Islamic republic, perhaps none is more visible than the Iranian obsession with physical beauty. Far from focusing on internal spiritual values, young people – some aged 14 – are having cosmetic surgery in the hope of attaining "doll faces" to make them look like the actors they see in Hollywood films and satellite television programmes from the west.

Iran has the highest rate of nose surgery in the world. According to a report in the conservative Etemad newspaper, as many as 200,000 Iranians, mostly women, go to cosmetic surgeons each year to reduce the size of their nose and make the tip point upwards.

For many, surgery is a reaction to the restrictive rules of compulsory hijab. "They won't let us display our beauty," one woman said.

"It's human nature to want to seek out attention with a beautiful figure, hair, skin … but hijab doesn't let you do that. So we have to satisfy that instinct by displaying our 'art' on our faces."

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Conclusion: The findings of the present study showed that cosmetic nose surgery increases the of levels of women’s satisfaction of their body image and it causes the person to have higher satisfaction of her nose and body image.

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The upper two-thirds of the Middle Eastern nose is dominated by a high radix and a strong dorsum, with an associated dorsal hump. The dorsal hump is almost always accentuated by an under projected, hanging nasal tip, which creates the illusion of increased dorsal height.

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The Guardianin Irania käsittelevästä blogista löytyi linkkejä Instagram sivustolle, johon liittyen olen lukenut kuinka sivustolla naiset muokkaavat kuvia paremmiksi tai ihonväriä vaaleammaksi käyttämällä filttereitä. Näissä iranilaisten Instagram sivuilla voi erikoisesti havaita olevan myös alla olevan kuvan näköisiä naisia, että hiukset ovat vaaleat ja silmät on ei ruskeat, että tässä varmaan tutkijoiden mukaan vaikuttaa taas länsimaat ja barbie. Varmasti vaikuttaa, mutta eiköhän lopulta naiset vaan halua kokeilla kaikenlaista ja olla erilaisia verrattuna toisiin naisiin. Länsimaiden mahdollisiin vaikutuksiin liittyen on hyvä huomata, että nykyään ihmiset voivat tehdä enemmän ulkonäöllisiä vertailuja ja jos naiset näkevät jonkun julkkiksen pienen nenän kauniina, niin se osaltaan perustuu feminiiniseen ulkonäköön, koska miehillä on yleensä suurempi nenä. Länsimaissa myös julkkikset ovat kasvavassa määrin esim. afroamerikkalaisia, mutta voisi olettaa iranilaiselle naiselle olevan esikuvana enemmän valkoiselta naiselta näyttävä julkkis tai malli, että naiset eivät taida kuitenkaan haluta tehdä itsestään mustaa naista.

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Toisessa tutkimuksessa on kysytty iranilaisilta opiskelijoilta näkemyksiä vastakkaisen sukupuolen ulkonäöstä ja naisten osalta miehet ovat suurelta osin tykänneet nuoremmasta iästä, pienestä nenästä, vaaleasta ihosta ja pituudeltaan keskikokoisista naisista. Vastaavasti naiset ovat tykänneet miehillä tummemmasta ihonväristä, pitkästä nenästä ja pituudesta. Näyttää siltä, että nämä mieltymykset vastaavat hyvin muitakin tutkimuksia ja miesten ulkonäön osalta tietenkin testosteroni tekee miehistä keskimäärin tummempia ja suurempia myös nenän osalta, joten naisen mieltymyksessä on kyse maskuliinisista tekijöistä vaikka näihin tekijöihin tahtoo liittyä riskejä tyttären ulkonäön kannalta, jos naisen parinvalinta perustuu liialti miehen maskuliiniseen ulkonäköön, joten jos joku iranilainen nainen tykkää huomattavan suuresta nenästä miehellä voi olla paikallaan säästää rahaa tyttären mahdolliseen nenäleikkaukseen.

Results: The findings of this research showed that the criteria for mate selection among females and males, belonging to different age groups, were significantly different in regard of couples’ age difference, physical attractiveness, and bodily criteria. Whereas about %73 of males believed that their partner should be younger than themselves, %95 of females preferred their partner to be older. Females preferred men with brunette skin, long noses and pretty tall while male preferred women with white skin, small noses and medium height.

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Keskustelupalstoilla on ollut aasialaisten naisten näkemyksiä kuinka he eivät tykkää liian söpöstä ulkonäöstään vaan haluavat enemmän eurooppalaiselle tai eurasialaiselle naiselle tyypillisemmät aikuisemmat kasvot. Nämä ulkonäölliset erot ovat sitten syynä siihen, miksi aasialainen nainen näyttää usein nätiltä söpöltä tytöltä kuvissa, kun taas eurooppalainen nainen on kuvissa usein sanotaanko aikuisen seksikkään naisen näköinen johtuen voimakkaammista kasvonpiirteistä, mutta myös suuremmasta vartalosta. Toisaalta liian voimakkaat kasvonpiirteet ovat ikääntymisen kannalta kielteisiä, jonka takia aasialainen nainen taitaa usein näyttää monta vuotta nuoremmalta.

Jotta voi paremmin ymmärtää keskimääräisiä ulkonäöllisiä eroja eurooppalaisen ja aasialaisen naisen välillä ovat siihen yksi erikoinen tarkastelukohde kiinalaiset verkkokaupat, joissa kiinalaiset yritykset markkinoivat tuotteitaan omituisen paljon käyttämällä eurooppalaisia naisia kiinan kielisillä sivustoilla. Varmaan näitä tuotteita markkinoidaan myös länsimaalaisille, jonka takia käytetään eurooppalaisia naisia, mutta monien kiinalaisten yritysten osalta taitaa kyse olla tarkoituksellisesta markkinoinnista, jonka takia voi myös päätellä, että käyttämällä mainonnassa eurooppalaisia naisia saa tuotteita myytyä.

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Pitkästä aikaa voidaan taas ihmetellä muutaman naisen ulkonäöllistä eroa, että vaikkei tässä pidä tehdä yleistyksiä on tämä nähdäkseni aika tyypillinen ero eurooppalaisen ja aasialaisen naisen välillä, jonka takia olen ajatellut, että eurooppalaiset miehet jotka tykkäävät tosi paljon aasialaisista naisista tykkäävät oikeastaan söpöistä tyttömäisistä naisista. En tällä tarkoita kaikkien aasialaisten naisten olevan tyttömäisiä vaan onhan paljon myös aikuisemman ja seksikkäämmän näköisiä, joita voi ihmetellä vaikka japanilaisilla pornosivustoilla.

Itse en ole paljoakaan tutustunut länsimaalaisiin verkkokauppoihin vaikka onhan tuo Suomen osaltaan tietokoneita myyvä Verkkokauppa.com erinomaisesti toteutettu, mutta kun katsoo näitä kiinalaisia verkkokauppoja hämmästyy kuinka paljon esim. vaatteiden markkinointiin panostetaan, että on kauniita malleja, joista otetaan välillä myös kuvia hienoissa ympäristöissä, että vaikkei miehiä taida vaatteet yhtä paljon kiinnostaa, niin voi ihastella hienoja kuvia, kun taas naisille löytyy näiltä sivuilta valtavan paljon hienoja vaatteita, joilla voi tehdä vaikka muut naiset kateellisiksi.

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Concept of beauty

Four Beauties
Ancient Goddess Statues

Ageing of Bones in the Face

Small-Face I Real Story
Facial Contouring

Nose Surgery (Barbie Nose)

Keskusteluja

Jatkoin vielä lisää afroamerikkalaisten naisten keskustelupalstojen tutkimista ja päädyin hiusaiheiselle sivustolle. Mustille naisille hiukset ja niiden hoito taitaa olla paljon keskustelua aiheuttava, mutta varmaan muillakin naisilla on samanlaisia sivustoja. Näillä sivustoilla usein kerrotaan kuinka mustat naisetkin pystyvät kasvattamaan vaikka takapuoleen ylettyvät hiukset, mutta todellisuudessa se ei taida päteä suureen osaan naisista, jonka takia moni hankkii peruukin. Näiltä ja miksei myös muilta sivuilta saa tietenkin vinkkejä, että miten saa omista hiuksista kestävät, kauniit ja pitkät, jonka takia usein mainitaan esim. risiiniöljy.

Alla olevassa kommentissa luultavasti musta nainen kertoo kuinka filosofian tunnilla oltiin kerrottu jostain tutkimuksesta, jossa kaikki olivat valinneet valkoisen naisen kauneimmaksi. Mikä tutkimus mahtaa olla kyseessä, koska jos tutkimukseen osallistuneet olivat enimmäkseen eurooppalaisia, niin ei sellaisesta tutkimuksesta voi tehdä päätelmiä, koska ihminen usein tykkää enemmän samannäköisistä. Toisaalta nainen kertoo kuinka kyse olisi symmetriasta ja toteaa kuinka ei valkoisilla olisi enemmän epäsymmetriset kasvot.

Nainen myös mainitsee kuinka on olemassa sanonta kuinka valkoiset näyttävät samanlaisilta, mutta tässä on sellainen virhe, että ihmiset usein näkevät selvästi erilaiseen ulkonäölliseen ryhmään kuuluvat samannäköisinä, jonka takia eurooppalaisten mielestä mustat ja aasialaiset ovat yleisesti samannäköisiä vaikka se ei täysin pidä paikkaansa. Tästä huolimatta ihminen pystyy jossain määrin oppimaan erottamaan toisistaan vaikka erilaisia itäaasialaisia etnisiä ryhmiä, kunhan katselee heitä ja vaikka muuttaa Kiinaan asumaan.

Well i took a philosophy class last yr .
And we read a study on the most attractive .
They found after showing many people pictures of a woman they all picked the same one .
And , yes she was a white woman .
Not because black women are ugly , but because of symmetry . Humans appeal more to symmetry. Equal lips , noses , foreheads on both sides .
Im assuming that us of color lack symmetry in our face .
Ever hear the phrase " all white people look the same ?"
That refers to the symmetry .

Not saying that this is right or downing people that are gonna say " we are all Gods children and beautiful "
But i just thought it was interesting .

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I also think that we have been "conditioned" by media to embrace white women as beautiful more than any other race...beautiful minority women are sometimes referred to "exotic" as if it's not the norm...

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Alla musta nainen kertoo kuinka psykologian tunnilla oltiin kysytty oppilailta näkemyksiä parinvalinnasta ja tyypilliseen tapaan naisia eivät erityisen paljon ulkonäköön liittyvät tekijät kiinnostaneet tai eivät ainakaan myöntäneet, mutta kuten tutkimukset ovat yleisesti kertoneet oli vastaavasti miehille useimmin tärkeää varsinkin hyvät suoremmat hiukset naisella kuin kähärät mustille tyypilliset hiukset. Jos kerta mustat miehet usein tykkäävät suoremmista hiuksista ja vaaleammasta ihonväristä naisella, niin ei pitäisi olla ihme, jos vastaavasti muutkaan miehet eivät erityisen paljon mustista naisista tykkää kähärien hiusten takia vaikka valkoiselle naiselle nämä tekijät eivät olisi ongelma mustassa miehessä. Toisessa lainauksessa mainitaan barbie nuket ja näistä nukeista on aina välillä kohistu kuinka mustat lapset ovat usein valinneet valkoisen nuken, mutta en oikein ymmärrä kohua, koska eikö pieni lapsi itse saa päättää millaisesta nukesta tykkää enemmän. Ei aikuisten pidä aina olla jauhamassa rasismista tai länsimaiden vaikutuksesta, jos musta lapsi näkee kauniina vaalean barbie nuken.

So Im in Pshycology class and the professor asks us to make two lists, one consisting of ideal things we look for in a mate and realistic things we look for in a mate. All the women didnt care about looks, but the men...more than half put light skin women on the top of the list. They all want a woman with straight hair. One dude actually said he wants a woman that is mixed with Native American so she can have straight silly hair so she can have "good hair". Another said he want a girl that dont have nappy hair. All the while I sitting in class rocking my puff. I just got really sad. These men refuse to date a woman with natural hair. I was hurt not because of my hair, but because the close-mindedness is still very much alive. Also the light skin bit...really though!? Wth!!

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Are you freaking kidding me..People like what they like but it would be interesting to know the reasoning behind it. Alot of our male celebrities and professional athletes seemingly feel the same way..

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When I was little I wished I was one or the other. Black or white rather than both. It wasn't about color it was more about the torment I got from EVERYONE.

Black kids, especially girls, TELLING me I thought I was cure because I was mixed. Or that I was fake because of the way I spoke. Or teasing me because my braids never stayed nice because my hair would unravel.

White kids giving me the usual- "half a nigger is still a nigger". I got that one a lot from two kids in particular. Asking me why my hair was like it was (read giant frizz ball). Name calling. Calling my mom a traitor.

As I got older I became better equipped to deal with the teasing and found a really good friend. Because of that friendship I felt much more confident in myself and after a while none of it mattered anymore. Then I started the journey to self acceptance. Still on that journey though.

I think lots of people want something they don't have for whatever reason. Some white people tan to be darker and will sacrifice their life to be blonde. Lol! It's not all perfect in their world either though they are more privileged because of our screwed up culture.

I'm sorry you still feel this way about yourself and I hope you really take some time to explore deeper within yourself to find out why you really wish this and then work to fix that. Embrace yourself. Love yourself. God made us in his image which means Go is a diverse God and each of us is heavenly in our special way.

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I remember in kindergarten I wanted blonde hair and blue eyes like one of my classmates. I also remember there was something that my class won in kindergarten and all the girls got to pick a Barbie doll. We had to choose between the blonde Barbie or a black Barbie. I chose the white Barbie and all I can I remember is my mom asking me why I chose that Barbie. Can't remember what I said or what she said but those are two moments I'll never forget. I eventually grew out of that mentality in grade school. I can't imagine being any other way but black and beautiful.

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Toiselta mustien naisten keskustelupalstalta tuli vastaan tämä muutama vuosi sitten kohun aiheuttanut Satoshi Kanazawan kirjoitus, jossa mustia naisia pidettiin kaikkein vähiten kauniina, mutta sitten mustista miehistä tykättiin enemmän, jonka takia monet mustat naiset ovat usein kysyneet, että jos mustat naiset ovat rumia, niin ilman heitä ei olisi komeita mustia miehiä. Mustat naiset eivät varmaan ymmärrä sitä, että vaikka musta mies tiettävästi hyötyy paljonkin maskuliinisesta ulkonäöstään, että heillä on helppo löytää valkoisia naisia, niin nämä samat tekijät näkyvät myös mustissa naisissa koskien varsinkin ihonväriä. Tietenkin mustat naiset ovat omalla tavalla feminiinisiä varsinkin vartalon ja suuren takapuolen takia, mutta siitä huolimatta miehet näyttävät enemmän tykkäävän muista naisista.

Tällainen kohu laittaa pohtimaan, että olisiko sitä syntynyt jossei mustia naisia olisi pidetty kaikkein rumimpina vaan vaikka valkoisia naisia. Samaan tapaan muistaakseni viime vuonna oli Etelä-Afrikassa kohu, jossa musta opiskelija nainen teki kyselytutkimuksen, jossa valkoiset valittiin kaikkein kauneimmiksi ja mustat kaikkein rumemmiksi. Kun tehdään tällaisia tutkimuksia, niin aina jokin ihmisryhmä on keskimäärin rumempi kuin toinen, joten jos ihmiset näkevät yleisemmin mustat naiset rumimpina, niin ei sille mitään voi. Tietenkin ymmärrän, että tällaiset tutkimukset eivät tunnu mukavilta, mutta ei sitten tarvitse ihmetellä, miksei miehet yleisemmin tykkää mustista naisista ja miksi vastaavasti naiset usein tykkäävät mustista miehistä. Laitoin tuohon kuvan, joka tuli vastaan alla olevasta keskustelusta ja olen havainnut kuinka monet mustat naisetkin väittävät, että mustat miehet pariutuvat paljonkin rumien valkoisten naisten kanssa, joka voi hyvinkin pitää keskimäärin paikkaansa ja monia myös harmittaa, että miksei mustalle miehelle kelvannut kaunis musta nainen.

He musta thought he was doin something. I wonder if he's ever written about why Asian men are considered the least attractive men in the world...that would surprise me.

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its real ironic too, cuz i could EASILY make up some bullsh*t article about how i find asians the least attractive of all the races AND how i think they're descendants of aliens AND how i am CONVINCED their men dont have penises. . .but then id be wrong

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well my thoughts on it are that most people tend to be attracted to their own race, black people arnt the largest race populating this world their fore they are less attractive by those standards

correct me if im wrong but chinese/asians are the largest populating race on this planet right?

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He should have stuck to asian things like building hondas and doing math. Don't nobody want they lil Sausage opinions. And super duper ooper ugh @ that mole! sh*t ain't ordinary breh!

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Tuossa ylempänä kun oli vähän juttua näistä nukketesteistä, niin antropologi Peter Frost:in blogista löytyy lisätietoa ja muutenkin kaikenlaista mielenkiintoista tietoa koskien varsinkin ihonväriä ja sen merkitystä naisen kauneudessa.

My own research led me to conclude that we all have a mental algorithm that responds specifically to differences in human skin color. This algorithm did not come into being to evaluate color differences between different racial or ethnic groups. It arose to evaluate the much smaller difference in complexion between the sexes. Women are the ‘fair sex’. Their skin has visibly less melanin and hemoglobin than does male skin even when both sexes receive the same amount of sunlight (Edwards & Duntley, 1939; Frost, 1988; van den Berghe & Frost, 1986). Complexion is thus one of several visual cues, like face shape and voice pitch, that the human mind uses for sex recognition. This visual cue seems to be hardwired: people can distinguish a man's face from a woman's by complexion alone, even when the image is blurred and offers no other details (Russell, 2003; Russell, 2009; Russell & Sinha, 2007; Russell et al., 2006; Tarr, 2002).

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Yes, in traditional societies, there is a strong cross-cultural trend to associate light skin with femininity. This trend was documented by me and Pierre van den Berghe in our 1986 article:

Van den Berghe, P. L. and P. Frost. 1986. Skin color preference, sexual dimorphism, and sexual selection: A case of gene-culture co-evolution?, Ethnic and Racial Studies 9:87-113.

In modern Western cultures, this idealization of light female skin has all but disappeared. It still shows up in word-association tests and the like, but it is no longer part of our mainstream culture. During my tests with French-Canadian children, I noticed that their mothers often showed signs of deliberate suntanning. So I don't see how the kids were getting it from their mothers.

Sorry, but you can't blame everything on mom.

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Eksotiikkaan ja sekarotuisten kauneuteen liittyen löytyi keskustelu. Nähtävästi tästä asiasta muutenkin keskustellaan, että miksi sanotaan esim. Halle Berry:n olevan kaunis musta nainen vaikka hänellä on valkoinen äiti niin kuin ei olisi kauniita aitoja mustia naisia. Eiköhän tässä vaikuta samankaltaisista tykkääminen, että eurooppalaisten tai valkoisten on helpompaa nähdä sekarotuinen kauniina, jos hän varsinkin omaa kauniin ulkonäön tai on samankaltaisempi eurooppalaiseen naiseen verrattuna, mutta sellaista ulkonäköä ei aina edes ole sekarotuisella, kuten alla olevassa kommentissa todetaan.

Being mixed is considered exotic to many people because it is seen as being different. As commonplace as we are becoming some people still see us as special novelty items to be claimed. You shouldn't feel exotic because you aren't. There is nothing special about being mixed just like there is nothing special about being monoracial. People who see mixed race people as something special usually have self hate issues or some kind of weird fetish. Also when people are thinking of exotic mixed people they are normally thinking of some unique combo of features I.e. Curly red hair, green eyes and tan skin, etc. if you look just white or just black or have commonplace features like say brown hair, brown eyes and tan skin that may be why everyone isn't making a fuss over you.

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"Exotic" can be anything you're not used to. Me, I'm used to black men so to me, they're not exotic. To a women of another race, from another country, that aren't used to seeing black men, they'd be exotic. To me, Native American men are exotic. Also, asian men. That's just an example with my understanding.

Mixed people can be seen as exotic but to me, they're nothing special. Maybe because I am mixed and is also used to seeing mixed people. I don't see myself as exotic but maybe there a man/woman out there who might. Don't know.

The world seems to think that mixed people, especially black/white, are god's gifts to the world. It's said that they're the most beautiful. Truth is, they may be pretty/cute/beautiful but there are some that aren't attractive at all. Actually, I saw a girl the other day that was mixed and fugly.

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Mustien keskuudessa on nähtävästi aiheuttanut keskustelua Beyonce:n pienen lapsen mahdollinen rumuus, koska laulaja meni valitsemaan puolisokseen miehen, jonka ulkonäöllä voi olla kielteisiä vaikutuksia. Monet ihmiset tekevät kuitenkin virheen, jos alkavat pienen lapsen ulkonäön perusteella tekemään päätelmiä, koska osa vauvoista tai lapsista on kuin rumia ankanpoikia, että vasta aikuisena näyttää kauniilta tai komealta, kun kasvonpiirteet ovat kunnolla kehittyneet. Tämä pätee myös toisin päin koskien esim. sekarotuisia lapsia, että vaikka usein on tapana esitellä sekarotuisia pariskuntia pienten lasten tai vauvojen kanssa, josta sitten moni tekee helposti päätelmän kuinka kauniita ovat lapset, mutta tämän päätelmän tekeviltä unohtuu, että ulkonäkö muuttuu kasvaessa, jonka takia esim. tytär voi aikuisena näyttää enemmän mustalta isältään, joten vaikka valkoisesta äidistä tuli jostain syystä mulatti lapsen yksinhuoltaja, niin äiti voi aina nähdä isän kasvot tyttäressä.

Here’s a sampling of the stomach-tightening invective I’ve read online:

“hopefully she gets most of her looks from her mother’s side.”

“thats gonna be one ugly ***** baby with big ass lips and a dirty ass weave.”

“i just hope beyonce genetics dont get over powered by camel genes.”

“I had a dog named Blue! Poor kid—all of the talent and money in the world won’t do her much good if she looks like Jay-Z.”

“I had no idea that that ‘adorable’ and ‘Jay Z’s nose, eyes and lips’ could have been used in the same sentence. I wish them the best of luck though!! ”

“i NEED pictures cause that baby don’t sound “adorable” She got all the ugly traits of Jay-Z..not to be mean or rude & talk about a kid or nun but that baby sound ugly.”

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Give me a break. If the baby is ugly it wont be because she's black it will be because she has an ugly father. Jay-Z is ugly, not cause he's black. But because he's just ugly plain and simple.

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Oh, please. The last thing that baby has to worry about is colorism outside in the world when her mother has had a nose job and walk around with a blonde wig on her head. It starts in the home. And if she ends up not loving her blackness, don't blame society, blame her wanna be white mother.

Black folks need to quit always turning to the outside. Know why too many black girls don't think they're beautiful? Because we've got black women in their homes emulating whiteness, that's why! And Beyonce is doing the same thing.

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They are only saying these things because its a girl and if the girl looks like her father then she is gonna be ugly. Internalized racism.

If it was a boy, it would be less talk of his looks, as men are supposed to look rugged and have broad features and be dark and handsome.

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i swear i've been in threads where ppl are attacked for saying african features existed. interesting.

yes, if this genders were reversed people would be in more uproar, but i think that sensitivity comes from the fact women are desired to look whiter while bm can be pitch black, fat lips, fat nose, nappy hair and still be considered the sexiest thing on earth to bw.

Jay Z is unattractive due to bone structure and people mistakenly blame his facial features. Put some thin lips and a small nose on him and he's STILL ugly

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Alle olen poiminut muutamia kommetteja Ask The Harvard MBA sivulta löytyneeseen jokseenkin poliittisesti korrektiin hyväntahtoiseen kirjoitukseen mustien naisten rumuudesta ja sen syistä. Kommenteista löytyy paljonkin hyviä selityksiä ja myös niitä, jotka ovat tästä asiasta järkyttyneitä eivätkä nähtävästi tunnu ymmärtävän sitä, että mies tykkää enimmäkseen feminiinisen kasvonpiirteen omaavista kauniista naisista. Kuten yleensä on ihmisillä tapana kertoa kuinka he ovat kauniita ja heillä on ollut valkoisia poikaystäviä, mutta kun tässä ei ole kyse yksittäisistä ihmisistä vaan tilastot selvästi osoittavat etteivät valkoiset miehet erityisen paljon tykkää mustista naisista verrattuna muiden rotujen naisiin. Ongelma tässä tahtoo yleensä olla siinä, että ihmiset eivät ymmärrä, mitä tarkoittaa sana keskimäärin, koska ei sillä tarkoiteta kaikkien mustien naisten olevan rumia. Tämä on tietysti ymmärrettävää, että varsinkin mustat naiset ovat rumia yleistykset ärsyttävät monia, joten tässä mielessä olisi parempi olla näissä ulkonäkö asioissa korrektimpi ja tarkempi tai jättää ne kertomatta, jottei loukkaa vaikka varmaan melkein kaikki ihmiset maailmassa suurin piirtein näkevät, miltä yleensä näyttää kaunis nainen tai komea mies vaikka tykkäämisessä olisikin rodullisia tai etnisiä eroja.

Olen poiminut yhden kommentin myös mustalta naiselta, joka kertoo mustien naisten tykkäävän mustista miehistä ja tällainen käsitys on minullakin, joka sitten on yksi syy siihen, miksi mustat naiset eivät mielellään sekarotuista parisuhdetta muodosta, kuten eivät myöskään monet valkoiset naiset. Lisäksi musta nainen kertoo kielteisiä puolia mustista miehistä sukupuolitautien levittäjinä ja kuinka musta nainen tulee toimeen omillaan. Näin antropologi Peter Frost ja monet muutkin tahot ovat kertoneet kuinka Afrikassa nainen on ollut työmies ja tullut toimeen ilman miestä. Kiimaiset valkoiset naiset saisivat varmaan paljonkin epäkorrektia ja varoittavaa tietoa mustilta naisilta, mutta toisaalta osa mustista naisista voi myös tarkoituksella antaa mustista miehistä huonoa kuvaa, jottei valkoiset naiset veisi mustia miehiä. Tietenkään ei pidä näitä kommenteissa olevia väitteitä täysin uskoa tai ainakaan yleistää, mutta kyllä niissä on yleensä jotain totuutta.

You did not answer her question. The answer is simple: most white men do not find black features attractive. The big jaw, the wide nose, the out of shape bodies. Also, the ghetto way of talking. Look at the black women who are considered beautiful and they all have white features (nose, jaw, lips), nice bodies, and normal speaking voices. Hence, the apt description of a white girl dipped in chocolate.

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Black people seem to be at the phenotypic extremes of the rest of the world, even though you can find man or woman of the same features in Asians, but I feel as though having hair that is closer to the texture of European hair does help.

What it really comes down to is money, power, and legacies.

Only white women can make white babies and when you are trying to maintain white supremacy there is going to be an inherent value placed on white women or women who share the same aesthetics of white women. All other races look at black people the same way as white people do which is played up in the media portraying black people as constantly inferior. Look at anime - Asian are some of the worst culprits of white worshipping themselves, so I consider it deflective to say it’s just white media. There is a degree and element of self hate.

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It’s simply biological evolution. Nature forcefully moves mankind away from its simian origins; hence the worlwide general distaste of women with heavy bones, short squat powerful bodies, thick facial features, heavy body hair, and other simian traits. But we have great difficulty admiting this for various social reasons, and so it’s much easier to label this trend as racism, media bias, American attitudes, etc. Sometimes the truth is so repressed and feared that we frantically search for other less painful explanations in order to live in peace.

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I myself am a white woman and am attracted mostly by white men (whether some of you lot may consider it racist or not.) To my mind it is just a matter of personal opinion and has ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with racism, I think it is about time afro-americans stopped blaming everybody else for having such stupidly-run countries. (And I do know what I am talking about because as a matter of fact I have been to Africa a lot : it is indeed full of exploitable ressources but unfortunately is not being exploited… but that’s another matter.)

People have their own tastes, some guys like negroid features and bubble bums and deep booming voices and diva attitudes, others don’t, that’s the way life is. Deal with it, minorities are attractive to some people and repulsive to others, in the same way that individuals leave different impacts depending on the people. I don’t believe trying to find someone to blame for that is doing the Afro-americans any good.

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I can understand the scientific argument as to why non-black men don’t like black women. If you don’t like black features (lips, nose, hair), then there’s really nothing that can be done. But my suspicion is that the media controls the standards of beauty in America. Let’s not pretend that there are no beautiful black women out there. Both light skinned, medium and dark skinned. But how often are they portrayed on television? Think of a random show. Take the Walking Dead for example. Almost all of the white women cast were all attractive. But the black women? I’m sorry to say that they weren’t that attractive.

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WE as black women prefer to date and ne with one man preferably a black man that is why there are less black women being married we just prefer black and most black men are locked up and or can not support a family. The high Hiv rate comes from a black man telling his women he is not cheating or gay but he is. She trust him he doesnt use a condom and he comes back and infects her. Most black women are faith. Smart, intelligent, Educated, we make are own money. We do not wait on a man to take care of us.

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Than they SHOULD? Wow, that sounds like a rather dictator-like thing to say. People have the right to be attracted to whomever they like, and political correctness shouldn’t make people feel forced to go out with people they are really not in to. Attraction isn’t a political choice. We don’t choose who gives us “that spark” and who doesn’t, and for someone to blatantly tell us that we *should* date people we don’t feel attracted to just because we’re white and they’re black is the definition of racism.

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I am writing to you because I am at my wits end but I don’t even know if there is anything you can do to help me. I am a 38 year old, university educated, extremely overweight Black woman on the wrong side of the paper bag shade – much, much darker than the paper bag. I have tried every diet known to man in an attempt to lose weight but to no avail – in fact the older I get the more weight I gain. I have also tried skin bleaching and skin lightening creams on my face and my entire body but I gave up eventually because they are very time consuming – it takes a lot of time to administer all over the body. I don’t use them anymore. I hold down a full time job in a good, proffesional career and I am well remunerated. I do believe that I am witty, funny, intelligent and quite sociable and yet I am very much a single woman and have not been in a relationship for the last five years as no man would even look at me and the non-physical qualities I could offer – it’s all visual and physical with men: they all want the light skinned Halle Berry or Beyonce type. As for marriage – forget it, I have no chance. If slim light-skinned Black women in their late twenties and early thirties can’t find husbands then what chance is there for me?

I have come to the conclusion that I will very likely remain overweight, unmarried and childless for the rest of my days and I blame it on the fact that I am Black. I do believe that Black women (especially those of West African descent as opposed to those of East African descent who naturally tend to have a taller, slimmer and lighter frame) do have a natural predisposition towards obesity and so it is not their fault that they are overweight.

African American and Black British women are predominantly of West African descent – I don’t need to go over the history of the Slave Trade. We are constantly being criticised for being overweight but nobody ever considers the biological factors that cause our obesity in the first place. Of course we must watch our diet and do regular exercise but there’s no escaping the fact that Black women do have a natural predisposition towards obesity and this is embedded in our DNA thus putting us at a disadvantage when seeking a mate or spouse within the marriage market. Combine my being overweight with the fact that I am very dark skinned and have very short hair that just simply will not grow, much less reach anywhere near my shoulders, then you have an idea of what I am up against.

All these “natural disadvantages” have started to get me down and I have really grown to hate the fact that I am a Black Woman. Yes, there I said it: I HATE BEING A BLACK WOMAN. I hate having hair that will not grow just like it does for White, Latina, and Asian girls. You may think it is trivial but these things really matter when looking for a mate, as men of all races are naturally drawn to women with a lot of hair on their head – so it does matter. (Yes, I have tried the weaves and wigs and they look plain horrible and fake, not to mention they cost too much money and time. The only peeople who can afford to have and maintain really good looking weaves and wigs on an ongoing basis are the super-rich like Beyonce or Janet Jackson). I hate being so dark skinned in a world where light skinned is prized so highly. At least overweight, light-skinned Black women have their light skin to fall back on – I have no such luxury, but most of all – I HATE BEING FAT, which I repeat, is caused by being Black.

You may argue and say that obesity has no biological link to being Black but I would beg to differ. I find it to be too much of a coincidence that the highest rates of obesity just so happen to be within the Black female population – both in the USA and the UK. That tells me there is a biological link to all this. This is what has caused me to hate being Black more than anything else – I am fat because I am Black.

Call me a self hater if you want, but there is no denying the bitter truth. I put on a brave, smiling face as I face the world and go about my daily business but on the inside I am overwhelmed with the hopelessness and despair of my situation.

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So, Please take the time to read this essay and be honest with yourself that you know deep down inside these issues are real and true. The hilarious issue, as always, is *why* black men are so infatuated with White women. The answer is simple: Black Men think that Black women are UGLY. So many black men just want women who have lustrous, silky, straight hair and “refined” Caucasian facial features. That’s of course if they can’t find a black woman who’s light enough and has similar features. But these days that’s not even good enough. Let me shed further light on this: Have you ever noticed how BADLY some black men want White women?? It's the proverbial every black man's dream.

Check the USA census(if you're skeptical) that 95% of people in America marry within their own racial/ethnic group (i.e. Whites w/ Whites, blacks w/ blacks, Asians w/Asian, latino w/ latino), black men still demonstrate a stronger preference for White women than men from other racial/ethnic groups such as Asian or Latino. People are naturally attracted to people who share their physical characteristics.

Although I'm sure that any man is able to appreciate the beauty of women from other racial/ethnic groups, only black men exhibit the strong compelling impulse to be with someone from another race. So why DO black men want White women so BADLY??? Why do our poor black women spend millions (collectively) every year for products to straighten their hair, even bleaching their skin (particularly in Africa) in an effort to look like a White woman for only one reason, so that they can attract and maintain a relationship with a black man. I want to offer some insight into this phenomenon. 1) Full lips, kinky hair, and broad noses - While these physical characteristics are considered attractive in certain areas of Africa, they are considered unattractive to some people of other races. The black men simply don't want their children to have physical traits that are regarded as unsightly by the “dominant” races, so they endeavor to dilute their African blood with a European blood. Black women have had this tendency as well (remember Light Skin brothers used to be in).

Honestly, how many times have you imagined or hoped that your children would have “good hair” like the father or “pretty eyes” like the mother.

If you think I’m crazy simply analyze cases like The Placage (sp) in Louisiana where black women and mulattos, “breeded” with the French men to keep caucasian blood in their family lines. An even better example is the racial caste system in South Africa. Black men want a daughter who looks like Mariah Carey or Vanessa Williams, rather than Aunt Jemima or the woman who gave birth to him. 2) What better way to get back at Whitey for slavery, elevate your status among the homeboys, and bolster your black male self-esteem, than to have sex with a White woman!!! Never mind that most, (I know that there are exceptions like wives of millionaire athletes, actors and many affluent black men.) of these White women are overweight, unattractive, have low self-esteem, or have been rejected by White society for some reason and therefore feel the must settle for a black man out of desperation... White is White!!!

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No one is saying all Whites are "Good Looking" line up 100 White people & line up 100 Blacks of Bantu origins....Half the Blacks will look like a primate exhibit while the rest would be just barely be easy on the eyes..

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It looks like that according to this film, even if Chinese were the dominant race on Earth, the standard of beauty for women at least is still white. Architecture is still European. Apparently the only difference in this imagined world is that Chinese would be the majority language and that Chinese men would be considered more attractive. This film misses the opportunity to explore the issue in any meaningful way and comes off as being another whiny "Asian males are oppressed!" film...

LOL then explain why we don't see many white guys successfully dating black girls in the US. Are white males depicted negatively by their own media? And how do black guys in China easily pick up local girls despite their negative perception in the Chinese media? Asians are just genetically small and feminine. Blacks are big and masculine. Whites fit somewhere in between. (on average, exceptions do exist). That's why we mostly see asian girls with white guys and white girls with black guys. Rarely the other way around. You can change the media all you want, but this trend will not be affected. People aren't equal. Stop living in denial.

Well, with all due respect, have you ever considered the possibility that the underrepresentation of Asians (particularly Asian men) in films owes in part to the fact that Asian Americans are at the most 5-6% of the U.S. population? And of that 5-6%, the majority of them are first generation immigrants. Then, to top that off, Asians in the U.S. tend not to be geographically distributed, but are mostly concentrated in a few states and cities (like the San Francisco Bay Area in California, Hawaii, New York, etc). Now, suppose you're a Hollywood big shot, and you want to make a film that will gross a significant profit. Is it wise to cast an Asian male as your lead, knowing that the majority of the overall American population (particularly the white American population) isn't going to be able to relate to the main character, and as a result your profits might suffer?

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Although there are many black men who are married to black women, the fact still remains that, 73% of interracial marriages in America are black men with other women who are not black–that’s far from a “rarity”. Beyond this, many African American women are well into age and not married to black, white, or other. It is sad but true nonetheless.

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The only reason blacks in the U.S. would be seen as hyper-masculine has to do with the fact that like 98% of blacks living in the U.S. came from slaves. When whites bought slaves from Africa, they only bought the biggest and strongest ones. The majority of blacks are smaller and not so masculine. But most blacks in U.S. are big because they came from a line of the strongest an biggest slaves brought from Africa.

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I will also point out that White men do NOT like Black women, they JUST don’t find us appealing enough and that is the truth and I don’t know why people just don’t admit this, because it is the plain TRUTH. If white men really liked black women, then the statistics would speak for themselves and this topic would be non existant. It is not fair! that white women are taking black men and this is where the real problem lies, not with white men as they prefer their own kind, I am prepared to fight back, if I see a black guy that like who is going out with a white women, I will try to steal him and I suggest other black women do the same.

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I hear people say that – mixed children are better looking. Why do they say that? It does not seem to be true, so it makes me think something strange is going on behind that statement.

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