Cultural Beauty Standards Quiz

Varying Cultural Standards of Beauty Around the World

• The Somatic Society is the concept of the newfound importance of the body in contemporary society.
• Eating disorders, demand for cosmetics and cosmetic surgery, body shaming, and body dysmorphism are the extreme results of the obsession with beautiful bodies and faces.
• Different cultures have varying standards of beauty.
• In the West, the majority still values the aesthetic of a tall, slender-but-busty woman with delicate features and a small waist.
• French people value natural beauty with fizzy hair and a just-woke-up face.
• Korean women value a perfect pale complexion.
• The Maori people of New Zealand consider tattoos on the face as the ultimate beauty.
• Brazilian women focus on toned and curvy bottom half with thicker, more muscular legs and hips.
• Thai women emphasize protecting their skin from the sun.
• Kayan tribe of Burma stack brass coils around their neck for the illusion of length, which is seen as a tool to attract men of the tribe and a controversial draw for tourism in recent years.
• Many African countries, such as Mauritania and Nigeria, view overweight women as the most sought-after.
• Lip plates are common accessories for women of the Mursi tribe in Ethiopia, and the larger the lip plate, the more attractive the woman is considered.