Cultural component of beauty/ was:Casting mis-steps

[zanooda2]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" <willsonkmom at ...> wrote:

> There is a cultural component to beauty, but I'm intrigued, 
> would someone be considered gorgeous in one place and actually 
> ugly in another?


zanooda:

Sure :-)! I've read about some tribe where long necks are considered beautiful, and the girls have to wear some kind of rings on their necks from a very young age, so that the neck could grow longer and longer, and as it becomes longer, more rings are added. As a result, their women look like giraffes to us, but the men of this tribe (I forgot where it lives) value the length of the neck and try to take a wife with the largest number of the rings :-). But of course I was not talking about such extremes :-).


> potioncat wrote:

> Just for fun, can you give us examples?


zanooda:

Hmm, I was hoping it won't come to the examples, because, you know, we tend to take things like that to heart - what if my "example" turns out to be someone's favorite actress? I don't want to upset anyone. However, since you asked, I'll give you one example: all Russians that I know (in my age category :-)) find Sara Jessica Parker very ugly, and it amazes me every time (and that's often :-)) when I see that she is called "a beauty" or some such word in a magazine. It just takes much more than that to be called beautiful in Russia, you know? At least it was like that when I was young... :-).


> kempermentor wrote:

> I'm curious. Will you post a link to pics of hawt youth from 
> both genders from your place of origin?


zanooda:

Maybe I will, if I find something :-). I haven't been to Russia in 17 years and I have no idea who is *hot* there now. I'll have to find out :-).