To What Extent Are Women Willing to Sacrifice In Order to Attain Their Culture’s Ideal Beauty Standards?

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Beauty is a very important aspect for women. A lot of pressure has been place on the female gender to attain a level of beauty that has been set by their culture and society. Due to the desperateness of wanting to be beautiful, women are willing to go to extreme lengths in order to please their family, themselves, and society. Although these measures were much more bizarre in the past than they are now, the present-day traditions of becoming beautiful are still ridiculous. Since women have been given this duty to represent the beauty of their culture, it has become an obligation to fulfill it.
Many people will tell others to not judge a book by its cover, and though that is a wise advice, their subconscious minds will contradict that statement, causing them to judge people on their appearances. M. Farouk Radwan, Msc, explains that there is a theory, the attractive halo effect, in which people relate good traits to good looks before ever even knowing one’s personality; a study found that strangers rate people who are attractive as more socially and financially successful and happier than unattractive people (Radwan, M. Farouk). This happening is done unconsciously and people do not realize that someone physically appealing can lead them to their biased judgements. Due to these judgements, physical appearance has become important, however, the standards of beauty differ from people to people and culture to culture. In many cultures, fashion and styles are used to portray one’s beauty, especially in women.
Fashion, though disregarded as so, is something that humans deal with everyday. It is a non-verbal way of either hiding or showing one’s character and even those who say that they do not care about their fashion will pick out clot...

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