Post by Gerard2 on Mar 26, 2006 12:18:59 GMT -5
Hi,
I live in France. Looking at the many commercial advertising on the streets, magazines, drug stores, TV ads… I was choked by the fact that so many women and men in these advertising were from the northern / blond / type.
France is a mixed country where the northern type is not the standard, yet, this type which is not ours is definitely considered as THE highest beauty standard. I noticed the same while travelling all across Europe, USA, and all developing countries.
My question is why ?
First, I must recognize that I personally consider that the blond type is very beautiful. Clear blue eyes inspire a sensation of beauty that I cannot experience when looking at another eye. This doesn’t mean at all that I can’t find non northern people attractive!! Beauty is universal, but nonetheless, blond type feels to be of a highest standard than ANY other type of beauty.
Even when you see mixed race people with a northern person, it seems like northern type act as a beauty enhancer no matter the mix.
This beauty standard at its highest is the clear skin / hair / eye / straight hair type. But on a little lesser degree you find all those irish / Scottish like type people that are not necessarily as much of the clear type but nonetheless are highest “rated” than other type.
Look at the sex symbols: Brad Pitt, Di caprio, Tom Cruise, Robert Redfort, James Dean, Paul Newman, Ethan Hawk, Vigo Mortensen…. All these people have a certain level of this northern type.
Also, have you ever watched the fashion TV, when you see runaway all day long ? It is amazing to see that all the models are almost all of the northern type, with straight hair and clear eyes.
Please, don’t get in the false debate with the fact that NOT ALL the models are of the northern type, and that there are sex symbols like Banderas and Denzel Washigton. YES, I know this, but the fact is that northern type rate is so much higher. Of course some northern people can be very ugly just as anywere... this is not the point we are talking about general "standard".
My theory might be a bit disturbing. But listen.
The most ugly people are people with abnormal genetics. In a sense, beauty is a proof of “normality”. This is why beauty is universal.
Now, why northern type feature are considered so attractive ? Couldn’t it be because northern type people are representing the most “evolved” form of homo sapiens ? I think so. It is obvious that our genetics push us to seek for the "beautiful", and perhaps the most "evolved" also.
Yes, it might sound disturbing considering the history of the last century, but this is a reason that sounds valid for explaining the obsession with northern beauty from the entire world.
If you have an opinion about this matter I will be glad to hear it.
I live in France. Looking at the many commercial advertising on the streets, magazines, drug stores, TV ads… I was choked by the fact that so many women and men in these advertising were from the northern / blond / type.
France is a mixed country where the northern type is not the standard, yet, this type which is not ours is definitely considered as THE highest beauty standard. I noticed the same while travelling all across Europe, USA, and all developing countries.
My question is why ?
First, I must recognize that I personally consider that the blond type is very beautiful. Clear blue eyes inspire a sensation of beauty that I cannot experience when looking at another eye. This doesn’t mean at all that I can’t find non northern people attractive!! Beauty is universal, but nonetheless, blond type feels to be of a highest standard than ANY other type of beauty.
Even when you see mixed race people with a northern person, it seems like northern type act as a beauty enhancer no matter the mix.
This beauty standard at its highest is the clear skin / hair / eye / straight hair type. But on a little lesser degree you find all those irish / Scottish like type people that are not necessarily as much of the clear type but nonetheless are highest “rated” than other type.
Look at the sex symbols: Brad Pitt, Di caprio, Tom Cruise, Robert Redfort, James Dean, Paul Newman, Ethan Hawk, Vigo Mortensen…. All these people have a certain level of this northern type.
Also, have you ever watched the fashion TV, when you see runaway all day long ? It is amazing to see that all the models are almost all of the northern type, with straight hair and clear eyes.
Please, don’t get in the false debate with the fact that NOT ALL the models are of the northern type, and that there are sex symbols like Banderas and Denzel Washigton. YES, I know this, but the fact is that northern type rate is so much higher. Of course some northern people can be very ugly just as anywere... this is not the point we are talking about general "standard".
My theory might be a bit disturbing. But listen.
The most ugly people are people with abnormal genetics. In a sense, beauty is a proof of “normality”. This is why beauty is universal.
Now, why northern type feature are considered so attractive ? Couldn’t it be because northern type people are representing the most “evolved” form of homo sapiens ? I think so. It is obvious that our genetics push us to seek for the "beautiful", and perhaps the most "evolved" also.
Yes, it might sound disturbing considering the history of the last century, but this is a reason that sounds valid for explaining the obsession with northern beauty from the entire world.
If you have an opinion about this matter I will be glad to hear it.
