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Standards of Beauty

Standards of Beauty. Kaitlyn Jolley. Beauty:.

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Standards of Beauty

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  1. Standards of Beauty KaitlynJolley

  2. Beauty: the quality present in a thing or person that gives intense pleasure or deep satisfaction to the mind, whether arising from sensory manifestations (as shape, color, sound, etc.), a meaningful design or pattern, or something else (as a personality in which high spiritual qualities are manifest). -Dictionary.com

  3. In America • Beauty in America based on the theme of Media deals with thin women and muscular men.

  4. Everything must be Perfect • Perfect Skin • Perfect Hair • Perfect Bone structure • Perfect Nails • Perfect Feet • Perfect style • Perfect Boobs • Perfect Butt • Everything Perfect

  5. Other Cultures In Asian Cultures, Women are getting eye surgery to rid themselves of what is considered not beautiful.

  6. Jamaica Vybz Kartel. He is a famous dance hall artist.

  7. Same Man After Bleaching his skin.

  8. Openly admits to bleaching

  9. Carolyn Cooper, professor of literary and cultural studies at the University of the West Indies. "We still have a racist legacy in which the perception is reinforced that the lighter your skin is, the more beautiful you are, the further you can go in the culture, the more socially accepted you are," she says. "Still, in Jamaica, a lot of positions of power are occupied by people who are light-skinned. And the attitude is, if light skin is in, I can get it, too."

  10. Black America- lighter means better http://youtu.be/UW31Te1awVw

  11. Testing • I would like to do this testing on both genders in the classroom to see if the same mindset is installed in the children at an early age.

  12. “Some girls, in order to be more attractive to the male, they get themselves into the use of chicken pills.”

  13. Chicken Pills: Pills Given to chicken to make the chicken grow faster.

  14. * Women who take these pills used to fatten poultry, in the hopes their own butts will get curvy and alluring to Jamaican men.

  15. If you have a fat bottom that means you have much power, wealth, and progress. Source of power

  16. Side Effects Numbness Diarrhea Dermatitis Arsenic Builds in the body Cancer

  17. Banned Although the pills are banned you may find them in the streets of Jamaica still being purchased

  18. Banned Along with the bleaching products Found in the streets unnamed.

  19. Beauty Jamaica is just like other countries when it comes to standards of beauty. The media portrays one thing and the rest of the community goes through dangers to achieve it.

  20. END Thank you

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