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There are very attractive Asian men who are either already in, or could be in American cinema, TV, etc... But the problem is they are not wanted by these productions! What incentive do you think Hollywood has for producing a major blockbuster movie with a heart-throb Asian dude as the lead? Absolutely none! At least not commercially. White guys don't wanna see that shit.
So...I agree that beauty has its universal standards, but ppl can still be biased due to other reasons.
Maybe i'm just weird...but i'm also attracted to what my friends call fobby asians...who tend to look/dress more metro.
haha...maybe it's cause they have style or something. And I am a sucker for the anime asian hair! LOL
Hmmm, well, right now, we have an Asian resident on our floor. He's probably in his late 20's/early 30's. He's around 6'1" and has the strong facial features mentioned. Many of us nurses think he's hot. He's married and awesome to work with.
Last night, one of my 55 yr old female patients said, "oh, he's such a hotty. And, he's really a great doctor, too." That was the first thing she said when I mentioned is name.
And, we have Korean aide on our floor who has those same kinds of facial features...and he's around 6'1". The older ladies, ages 40's to 90's) are always commenting how attractive he is.
Anyway, I just think it tells me that there is a huge acceptance of Asian guys across all ages!
So, shy guys....don't be afraid to approach a womn. You might be surprised at our pleasant response to such a refreshingly down-to-earth guy.
well yeah... old people think most young people are attractive... because we are... compared to them. that's not a very convincing sample size you have there.
and i don't know how anyone can say society doesn't influence people about who to consider attractive or not. it is an indisputable fact. they teach it to us in high school.
well yeah... old people think most young people are attractive... because we are... compared to them. that's not a very convincing sample size you have there.
and i don't know how anyone can say society doesn't influence people about who to consider attractive or not. it is an indisputable fact. they teach it to us in high school.
It wasn't just the old folks but the nurses she mentioned. No one's denying that society has some influence--that's what's known as the social overlay--but its influence is weak compared to the genetically programmed beauty standards.
The innate beauty standard is very hard to override, just like being afraid of heights or insects for some people. It physically feels good to look at an attractive person. That can't be reprogrammed by society. We may be told that everyone is beautiful but we still don't react to ugly people the same way we react to beautiful people. And we can certainly still tell the difference between the two.
yes it can be reprogrammed. why do you think beauty standards have constantly changed throughout history? and look at those places in africa where women mutilate their faces and that's seen as attractive by the men. i'm pretty sure noone in america would consider that attractive but those tribes do because that's what their society tells them to consider attractive
yes it can be reprogrammed. why do you think beauty standards have constantly changed throughout history? and look at those places in africa where women mutilate their faces and that's seen as attractive by the men. i'm pretty sure noone in america would consider that attractive but those tribes do because that's what their society tells them to consider attractive
You need to read this again, if not for the first time:
By Satoshi Kanazawa on April 27, 2008 in The Scientific Fundamentalist
They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder, which means that different people possess different standards of beauty and that not everyone agrees on who is beautiful and who is not. This is the first stereotype or aphorism that evolutionary psychology has overturned. It turns out that the standards of beauty are not only the same across individuals and cultures, they are also innate. We are born with the notion of who’s beautiful and who’s not.
On the surface, the aphorism “beauty is in the eye of the beholder” appears quite reasonable. Many introductory college textbooks in sociology and anthropology include pictures of people who are considered to be beautiful in different cultures, and some of them look quite bizarre to the contemporary western eye. However, evolutionary psychological research has overturned this common assumption and widespread belief.
Within the United States, both East Asians and whites, and whites and blacks agree on which faces are more or less beautiful. Cross-culturally, there is considerable agreement in the judgment of beauty among East Asians, Hispanics, and Americans; Brazilians, Americans, Russians, the Aché of Paraguay, and the Hiwi of Venezuela; Cruzans and Americans in Saint Croix; white South Africans and Americans; and the Chinese, Indians, and the English. In none of these studies does the degree of exposure to the western media have any influence on people’s perception of beauty. How is it possible for people from such diverse cultures to agree broadly on who is beautiful and who is not?
It appears that people from different cultures share the same standards of beauty because they are innate; we are born with the knowledge of who’s beautiful and who’s not. Two studies conducted in the mid-1980s independently demonstrate that infants as young as two and three months old gaze longer at a face that adults judge to be more attractive than at a face that adults judge to be less attractive. Babies are wonderfully hedonistic and have no manners, so they stare at objects that they consider to be pleasing. When babies stare at some faces longer than others, it indicates that they prefer to look at them and find them attractive.
In the most recent version of this experiment, newborn babies less than one week old show significantly greater preference for faces that adults judge to be attractive. Another study shows that 12-month-old infants exhibit more observable pleasure, more play involvement, less distress, and less withdrawal when interacting with strangers wearing attractive masks than when interacting with strangers wearing unattractive masks. They also play significantly longer with facially attractive dolls than with facially unattractive dolls. The findings of these studies are consistent with the personal experiences and observations of many parents of small children, who find that their children are much better behaved when their babysitters are physically attractive than when they are not.
Even the most ardent proponents of the traditional view that “beauty is in the eye of the beholder” must admit that one week (or even a few months) is not nearly enough time for infants to have learned and internalized the (supposedly arbitrary) cultural standards of beauty through socialization and media exposure. These studies instead strongly suggest that the broad standards of beauty might be innate, not learned or acquired through socialization. The balance of evidence indicates that beauty is decidedly not in the eye of the beholder, but might instead be part of universal human nature.
But what are the culturally universal and innate standards of beauty? What common features characterize beautiful faces? How are beautiful faces different from ugly faces? These questions lead us to the next stereotype to be overturned by evolutionary psychology: “Beauty is only skin deep.” I will talk about it in my next post.
there's a lot better looking guys on this site