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Post by MC anunnaki on Jan 25, 2005 17:14:42 GMT -5
Talk about a nervous twitch.. You just made 3 successive posts when you could've addressed it in one. Me thinks you're protesting too much. No, I'm postwhoring. ;D BTW, don't you think her nose is a little too acquiline and her cheek bones a little too high and outwards for the average Persian? Your Eurasian lady as a thick nose. I've seen Arabs and Iranians who look like her. The elf on my avatar is a cartoon. Duh, don't compare with real life people! ![::)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/eyesroll.png) ;D
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Post by human2 on Jan 25, 2005 17:20:13 GMT -5
Your Eurasian lady as a thick nose. I've seen Arabs and Iranians who look like her. The elf on my avatar is a cartoon. Duh, don't compare with real life people! ![::)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/eyesroll.png) ;D Actually, to the best of my vast anthropological knowledge, she is either part Arab or Persian. Why did you think I posted her for you? ![;)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/wink.png) You can even use your own astute senses on this. She doen't look like the European-Asian Eurasian type, does she?
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Post by tokenguy on Mar 16, 2005 17:07:17 GMT -5
I take your point Human 2. But again taste in the opposite sex, is subjective. Asian women you may find attractive, but they are as foreign to me as an African woman, an Indian woman from India, or an Aboriginal from Australia. In large part, the average European men/ women desire the opposite sex: to be larger than 5 feet with wider hips and prominent breasts (broad shoulders and larger upper body muscles in males) with round eyes and Caucasoid hair and prominent nose and less prominent cheekbones and medium lips. Most of these features are ingrain in our psyche. Just like the tastes a typical Asian Male, or Female have evolved their ideal of beauty. It was through evolution and preferences that has brought about ideals of beauty in the opposite sex, and is thus reflected in most of our western advertisements. There is no great conspiracy to keep or make the Asian female or Asian male less attractive to westerners of the opposite sex. The reason I have never seen an Asian portrayed in Europe in commercials or film is due to the fact that Europeans find those traits I mentioned above more appealing, and therefore the market (for commercial, films, tv, etc) reflects this. On a curious side note: I’d like to say that I have been to an Asian country who seems exorbitantly fascinated with European Caucasians; Japan. I was fascinated by the amount of Caucasians featured on their advertisements and to what seems to me a general obsession with Caucasians. From what I’ve heard from several friends who have been more traveled than I, this obsession is not only isolated in Japan. Attrativeness is not a genetically programmed trait, its product of our enviroment. Take Samoa for example, traditionally they preferred their women big and eating disorders were unheard of, however as western society began infultrating the islands their idea of beauty began to change due to pressure from the dominating colonial power. Now its not umcommon to see young pacific islanders starving themselves to look like Jennifer Anniston, whereas when thier mothers were teenagers they loved the voluptuousness of their bodies. Over the centuries Western ideals have destroyed many of the cultural identities of native groups around the world. These ideas weren't programmed into the psyche of individulas, they were learned both consciously and subconsciously. If say a Dutch child is raised in Bonaire, it shouldn't be a suprise that his preference of beauty would be mulatto women, likewise if he were raised in say Java well then he might have a preference for Javanese women....we are all product of our enviroments and our enviroments are ever changing. For years non-Europeans have found themselves hot commodities in Europe for their precieved "exoticness" whereas ironically in their own countries, many of which were, and are, European ruled colonies, their native features have been downplayed as unattractive.
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