There is indication that the beauty possessed by Westerners seems to be a universal ideal:
The doll experiments which found children of all races preference for white dolls because they were perceived as more ‘beautiful'
A friend of mine recently came back from South East Asian and she was amazed how all the models on the billboards were white not Asian
It reminded me of something I heard an Asian school girl on a train once say "All Asians want to look Eurasian and all Eurasians want to look Western"
Mostly white foreign cheerleader in the IPL
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisf...-cricket-women
As the Indian journalist Binoy Kampmark said The Indian ideal of the model woman, is a Caucasian beauty with flawless white skin
Its seems every racial other that makes it Tiger Woods, Sammy Davis Jr., Chung Le etc all have Western wives or girlfriends
South Africa for example has a large mixed race population but its most notably attractive individuals seem to be Afrikaner (white Afrikaans-speaking people) like Charlize Theron, Candice Swanepoel and Charlene Wittstock etc
The Western recessive alleles for light hair, eyes and skin have classically and historically been regarded as aesthetic par excellence e.g. the greatest beauty of them all ‘golden Venus’ with her fair skin and ‘grey eyes’, those paradigms of beauty the angels depicted as having a Germanic appearance; Pope Gregory, noticed some fair-haired boys in a slave market in Rome, and enquired where they were from. He was told that they were Angles and also Heathen, to which (Pope) Gregory replied, "Non Angli, sed angeli", "Not Angles but angels".
Read the classics like Shakespeare; for example The Merchant of Venice Portia after the Prince of Morocco chose the wrong casket so she didn’t have to marry him “Let all of his complexion choose me so" (2.7.78-79). Ovid’s The Art of Love tells how the Roman’s coveted the fair blonde hair of Germanics causing them to dye their hair or wear wigs made from the hair of Germanic maidens. Read the fairy tales, fair features like blonde hair was commonly ascribed to the heroes and heroines e.g. Goldilocks, rapunzel etc. Even The Lord of the Rings, the especially favourable year following the War of the Ring was signified in the Shire by an exceptional number of blonde-haired children. Just look at the Western features of most supermodels.
Even the black apologetics in the bible I am black but comely says the Queen of Sheba to Solomon in the biblical Song of Songs
Or the digitally lightening of photos of Aishwarya Rai, the former Miss World and Indian movie star by Elle Magazine when they put her on a cover with airbrushing to make her more aesthetically appealing
Or Asian obsession with whiteness, yes that’s why they carry the umbrellas to stop the sun from darkening their skin
Cosmetic efforts:
Popularity of skin whitening which is a multibillion dollar industry in Asian and Africa.
Asian blepharoplasties to create an upper eyelid with a crease to look more Western is reported to be the most common aesthetic procedure in Taiwan and other parts of East Asia
Popularity of Limb lengthening in Asia to try and achieve Western standards of height
The popularity of straightening Afro textured hair and extension to look more Western
Likewise Rhinoplasty for a smaller style Western narrow nose is popular amongst those of Jewish and Middle Eastern descent; the nose job capital of the world is Iran
The Brazilian mixed race beauty myth
Brazilian models are often regarded as exotic and beautiful having some sort of hybrid vigor; truth is they are not rather:
“over more than half of Brazil’s models continue to be found here among the tiny farms of Rio Grande do Sul (the most racially European part of Brazil), a state that has only one-twentieth of the nation’s population and was colonized predominantly by Germans and Italians.
RESTINGA SÊCA, Brazil — Before setting out in a pink S.U.V. to comb the schoolyards and shopping malls of southern Brazil, Alisson Chornak studies books, maps and Web sites to understand how the towns were colonized and how European their residents might look today.
The goal, he and other model scouts say, is to find the right genetic cocktail of German and Italian ancestry, perhaps with some Russian or other Slavic blood thrown in. Such a mix, they say, helps produce the tall, thin girls with straight hair, fair skin and light eyes that Brazil exports to the runways of New York, Milan and Paris with stunning success”.
Truth is German Brazilians have had many world-class models or supermodels and seem to be proportionally better represented in these areas than Brazilian models of other ethnic origins.
The best known German Brazilian model is Gisele Bündchen; others include Ana Claudia Michels, Ana Hickmann, Mariana Weickert, Letícia Birkheuer, Raquel Zimmermann, Cintia Dicker, Solange Wilvert, Monique Olsen, Carol Trentini, Jeísa Chiminazzo and Bruna Erhardt.
Winners of the Miss Brazil beauty pageant have included Vera Fischer (1969), Mariza Sommer (1974), Ingrid Budag (1975), Eveline Schroeter (1980), Maria Carolina Portella Otto (1990), Leila Cristine Schuster (1993), Thaisa Thomsen (2002), Carina Beduschi (2005) and Rafaela Zanella (2006).
e.g.
Miss Brazil and miss Universe 1969 German Brazilian Vera Fischer
Ana Hickmann German Brazilian supermodel who has worked for Victoria's Secret, sports illustrated etc
Raquel Zimmermann German Brazilian supermodel for Vogue, Versace, Calvin Klein etc
etc
Lombardians were a Germanic tribe from Northern Europe, Lombardy is the region were most Italian beauty queens hail.
E.g. Federica Fontana
I was recently watching a documentary featuring the stories of six people who want to westernise their bodies and faces, but I have known racial others through friendship who have undergone similar procredures to westernize their appearance in order to beautify it. Yet the media seems to try and convince Westerners that those same traits these people are try to be rid of are so very desirable.
The racial others that are most attractive tend to be mixed race with inheritance of rather European features present like Jessica Alba (mother Danish), Alicia Keys (mother Irish), Kristin Kreuk (father Dutch) etc
Travelers digest rated the cities with the most beautiful women, and it was no surprise the racially homogenous North European countries of Sweden and Denmark came number one and two respectively
http://www.travelersdigest.com/beautiful_women_2.htm
I recently asked a Eurasian friend of mine who has travelled the world extensively both East and West, what country he thought had the most beautiful people and he said Sweden for sure and I have heard this echoed many times by others since.
My intention is not to depict all non Western women as fugly, but to highlight how the media is trying to depict mixed raced people as more beautiful or desirable when the reality is this is not true.
As exogamy for people of North Western European heritage is a blow to any true aesthete
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