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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's ridiculous that folks are injecting a ethnic competition into a standard that has nothing to do with coloring.  Classic beauty just means a beauty that involves a symmetric, well-proportioned face, features on the delicate side, none disproportionate (even if its beautiful or sexy in its own way, e.g. Angelina's mouth, Amal's eyebrows), perhaps a statuesque, sculptural quality to face and body.  I agree with others that although its not perhaps strictly part of the definition, it implies someone who is more elegant and pretty than sexy.

I would say that there are plenty of non-Anglo women that meet the definition--as others said, Halle Berry, Iman, also Lupita Nyong'o, Aishwarya Rai, maybe Thandie Newton, Freida Pinto.  And on the other side, definitely actresses like Grace Kelley and Ava Gardner.

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Different ethnicity have their own standards for "classic beauty" as well. Japanese and Indians wouldn't generally hold up Grace Kelly as their standard. That look is what we, white westerners think of to define the word.[/quote]

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