STANDARDS OF BEAUTY

Kaitlyn Jolley

BEAUTY:the quality present in a thing or person that gives intense pleasure

or deep satisfaction to the mind, whether arising from sensory manifestations (as shape, color, sound, etc.), a meaningful design or

pattern, or something else (as a personality in which high spiritual qualities are manifest).

-Dictionary.com

IN AMERICA Beauty in America based on the theme

of Media deals with thin women and muscular men.

EVERYTHING MUST BE PERFECT Perfect Skin Perfect Hair Perfect Bone structure Perfect Nails Perfect Feet Perfect style Perfect Boobs Perfect Butt Everything Perfect

OTHER CULTURESIn Asian Cultures, Women are getting eye surgery to rid themselves of what is considered not beautiful.

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JAMAICAVybz Kartel. He is a famous dance hall artist.

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SAME MANAfter Bleaching his skin.

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OPENLY ADMITS TO BLEACHING

CAROLYN COOPER, PROFESSOR OF LITERARY AND CULTURAL STUDIES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES.

"We still have a racist legacy in which the perception is reinforced that the lighter your skin is, the more beautiful you are, the further you can go in the culture, the more socially accepted you are," she says. "Still, in Jamaica, a lot of positions of power are occupied by people who are light-skinned. And the attitude is, if light skin is in, I can get it, too."

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BLACK AMERICA-

LIGHTER MEANS BETTER

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TESTING I would like to do this testing on both

genders in the classroom to see if the same mindset is installed in the children at an early age.

“SOME GIRLS, IN ORDER TO BE MORE

ATTRACTIVE TO THE MALE, THEY GET

THEMSELVES INTO THE USE OF CHICKEN

PILLS.”

CHICKEN PILLS:

Pills Given to chicken to make the chicken grow faster.

* WOMEN WHO TAKE THESE PILLS USED TO

FATTEN POULTRY, IN THE HOPES THEIR OWN

BUTTS WILL GET CURVY AND ALLURING TO

JAMAICAN MEN.

SOURCE OF POWER

If you have a fat bottom that means you have much power, wealth, and progress.

SIDE EFFECTSNumbnessDiarrheaDermatitisArsenic Builds in the body Cancer

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BANNEDAlthough the pills are banned you

may find them in the streets of Jamaica still being purchased

BANNED Along with the bleaching products

Found in the streets unnamed.

BEAUTYJamaica is just like other countries when it comes to standards of beauty. The media portrays one thing and the rest of the community goes through dangers to achieve it.

ENDThank you