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[quote=Anonymous]The truth is: it is always the rich who set the beauty standard.

Centuries ago, when most people in the world were starving, only the rich could afford abundant food. While the poor were super skinny due to starvation, the rich were fat. At that time, being fat was considered beautiful and desirable. Just look at the ancient Roman paintings of the attractive women, they were all fat.

Today pretty much no one in U.S. or the developed world is starving. Being rich means you can afford eating less junk food, having plenty of time to devote to personal care. The poor ended up being chunkier. Because money means power. Subconsciously people admire the rich and the rich's skinny look becomes more desirable.

The same can be said about skin colors.  Being tanned is trendy among White people today because the rich can afford going to the beach and go on vacation more often and hence they are more tanned.

But this beauty standard of skin color wasn't always the case. In the past centuries, pale skin was considered more desirable. Due to the transportation and technology constraint at those times, beach vacation wasn't a common thing. While the lower class peasants in Europe were working in the fields and got tanned by the sun, the noble class were sitting in their castles and as a result, had lighter skins. Understandably, it was trendy to have pale skin back then and White women actually put lead powder onto their face to make them look paler.

In eastern Asia, it is still considered desirable to have lighter skin today because the upper class never work outdoors and protect their skin from the sun whenever possible.

If we had another long last famine in the world and everyone except the rich became super skinny, being plump would be in again. [/quote]

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