Originally Posted by chi

Well, to be perfectly honest, it is natural for a western society to hold up western standards of beauty which reflect the body types etc which are natural to them, it is absolutely normal, and we should be taking note. Its communities which hold up beauty standards which are associated with cultures other than their own that should worry us.

I really dont expect western beauty standards to hold up a non western minority (ie African, Asian etc) as the aspiration. I think that would actually be unhealthy for their own indegenous people.

We more than anyone know the pitfall of having the shape, skin, hair which doesn't come naturally to us, imposed or heavily suggested as our ideal.