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    Concept of Beauty in Different Countries

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    While standards of beauty differ across cultures, the concept of beauty has existed throughout history and worldwide. Generally, beauty implies health, vitality, and social status. It signals suitability for reproduction and ability to care for offspring. Though specifics vary, cultures commonly see beauty as reflecting fertility, physical fitness, and cultural norms. Global standards include attributes like clear skin, symmetrical features, and proportionate bodies, but certain cultures also find beauty in practices like lip plates, neck rings, tattoos, or modest dress. Beauty remains a prized quality that influences social perceptions and opportunities.

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    While standards of beauty differ across cultures, the concept of beauty has existed throughout history and worldwide. Generally, beauty implies health, vitality, and social status. It signals suitability for reproduction and ability to care for offspring. Though specifics vary, cultures commonly see beauty as reflecting fertility, physical fitness, and cultural norms. Global standards include attributes like clear skin, symmetrical features, and proportionate bodies, but certain cultures also find beauty in practices like lip plates, neck rings, tattoos, or modest dress. Beauty remains a prized quality that influences social perceptions and opportunities.

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    While standards of beauty differ across cultures, the concept of beauty has existed throughout history and worldwide. Generally, beauty implies health, vitality, and social status. It signals suitability for reproduction and ability to care for offspring. Though specifics vary, cultures commonly see beauty as reflecting fertility, physical fitness, and cultural norms. Global standards include attributes like clear skin, symmetrical features, and proportionate bodies, but certain cultures also find beauty in practices like lip plates, neck rings, tattoos, or modest dress. Beauty remains a prized quality that influences social perceptions and opportunities.

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    Concept of Beauty in Different Countries

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    While standards of beauty differ across cultures, the concept of beauty has existed throughout history and worldwide. Generally, beauty implies health, vitality, and social status. It signals suitability for reproduction and ability to care for offspring. Though specifics vary, cultures commonly see beauty as reflecting fertility, physical fitness, and cultural norms. Global standards include attributes like clear skin, symmetrical features, and proportionate bodies, but certain cultures also find beauty in practices like lip plates, neck rings, tattoos, or modest dress. Beauty remains a prized quality that influences social perceptions and opportunities.

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    CONCEPT OF BEAUTY IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES Beauty is often sought after, revered, and sometimes interpreted as a personal virtue.

    Standards of beauty are usually social markers determining cultural status, social acceptance and suitability as a mate. However, beauty remains an elusive notion. Scientists continue to study the biological and anthropological factors behind physical attractiveness, while advertisers continue to employ ideals of beauty to sell products. A physical aesthetic has remained constant over time throughout the diverse cultures of the world. In this sense, beauty has been regarded as a reflection of health, vitality, sexual allure and social appeal. Although the specifics of what makes someone beautiful can differ across countries, cultures and communities, the concept of beauty has existed for as long as there have been people. Securing a mate, procreating and receiving support from a life partner were some of humanitys earliest benefits of being beautiful. During the struggle to survive in antiquity, our ancestors needed to be part of a clan, sharing food, resources and shelter as they cared for offspring that would continue building their civilizations. In contemporary times, however, beauty has become a prized and helpful physical quality. Those who are beautiful, studies have shown, receive better pay for their work, more easily advance in social status and have even been viewed as being more competent and trustworthy. Along with an appealing face, a proportionate, pleasing body frame is a necessary feature of beauty as it demonstrates physical fitness and defines ones lifestyle. In Nigeria, women are encouraged to be more fullfigured as it demonstrates fertility and the ability to carry and birth many babies. In some Southeast Asian cultures, wherein war resulted in a lack of food, a more full-figured woman demonstrates a higher social status. Being thicker in frame can boast of being well fed and healthy. In these ways, beauty implies superiority and cultural status. However, standards of beauty depend upon the social conditions of the times in which one lives. Around the globe, diverse ideals of beauty often come with their own unique hazards. Some tribal women in Burma are known for their seemingly elongated necks fitted with multiple rings. Many rings signify social status, gracefulness and make women more appealing to potential husbands. The Maasai people approach beauty as an attainable quality that people can control. These east African tribal people focus on a tidy appearance and jewelry as adornment. In contrast, the Suri people of Ethiopia find beauty represented in womens lip plates. When a girl reaches puberty, her bottom teeth are removed to make way for a piercing in the lower lip. Another sign of personal value is demonstrated in the elaborate facial tattoos of the Mori people, an indigenous group in New Zealand. In Southwestern Asia, the area often known as the Middle East, the rejection of Western culture and beauty standards, along with the insurgence of Islamic traditions, has seen the rise in more traditional, Arabic clothing. This clothing tends to cover more of the body and gives only an alluring glimpse at the feminine figure within as a clear denunciation of the revealing outfits worn by many in the Western world. Although differing across the globe, beauty standards are an important part of the cultural landscape. Health, fitness and social expectations are consistent in standards of beauty across cultures, although different cultures all have their own ideas about what makes one beautiful. While time and social conditions can alter these standards, what remains is that the notion of beauty is unchanging and powerful.

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