How do you tell if a person is beautiful or not? Is beauty natural occuring? or it is merely a social construct? If beauty naturally occurs, then it is just around us and is being discovered. It is universal. Maybe if your left side of your face is symmetric to your right, you're beautiful. If you have curves or muscles and your flawless skin in super white, then your beautiful. Maybe beauty is being tall and having long hair.
Yes, one can just say this is exactly right and walk away, who cares anyway? But one can also argue that society dictates beauty. People which is a part of a group or a culture creates this concept and they behave as if it is a rule because almost all of them agree to each other. And it cannot be the same on various cultures because cultures in different places and in different time are diverse. Why is it long time ago in Thailand women who are considered beautiful have long necks? Why in old China they want women with small feet? In Japanese society hundred of years ago if men see a woman's heel or the part above the heel, they go crazy like they saw a woman's cleavage. Why is it in the renaissance period people like to paint fat women? These are some of the many evidence that proves beauty is a social construct.
But even a social construct is affected by many hidden forces inside or even outside a society. (itutuloy gutom na ako e.)
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