On female beauty, plastic surgery and our collective madness! QUOTE: A few centuries ago, Brazil imported more slaves — some 4 million — than anywhere else. Today, it is a primarily a mixed-race country, but you wouldn’t know that if you look at TV and in magazines, which rarely feature people of color. If you look at the traditional body type of a Brazilian, you would see a woman with dark skin, curly hair, small breasts and a larger bottom — a body that is very different from the body marketed as desirable, says Marcelo Silva Ramos, anthropologist and social scientist. What’s sold as beautiful here today, Ramos says, is someone like Brazilian model Gisele Bundchen: a woman who is tall, thin, blond, with straight hair, bigger breasts and fewer curves. People who don’t look the right way — and by this Ramos means the white way — are often excluded. In our culture, the view is women who look acceptable get money, social mobility, power, he says.
Posted on: Thu, 09 Oct 2014 17:58:55 +0000
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