How society emphasis on physical appearance?
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Well, first: How's society emphasis on proper syntax and grammar?\n\nOK,  I take it you mean : "In your society, what is the emphasis on physical appearance?"\n\nMy answer is this:  A WHOLE LOT. It is probably the most important detail people use in judging others.
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There are lots of factors.  It can be genetic.  Research studies have shown than week old infants prefer pictures of stereotypically socially "beautiful" people over average looking individuals.  It can be conditioning; your opinion is swayed by what society feel is right, pleasant and beautiful.  It can be biological; the factors around you during puberty would enact a preference for a "look," etc.  It can be familial; rituals or expectations caused by your family.\n\nAll interesting stuff!
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The "pretty" people are not generally teased for their looks. The"ugly" people just have one more thing to get teased about. That isnt always true though... sometimes "pretty" people sometimes have very hard lives... look at cwelebrities. I prefer not to look at people as "pretty" or "ugly". If everyone did that, the people you call "ugly" would have much better lives.
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Because people have fragile self images as it is thanks to a society that values looks.  Calling someone ugly is like saying their worthless.  Though in reality, they shouldn't need outside validation for who they are.  Plus, sometimes the truth hurts.  Western society in particular makes that a huge stigma.
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Why does it matter what you look like?
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The first thing would be their physical appearance..\nBut they ultimately look at how caring and true they can be..
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I think it's based off of society valuing what influential and rich people that they iconize look like.  The "elite" have the time and resources to devote to looking their "best" and usually that best is the opposite of what the average person in society looks like.\n\nIn the US it's hard to stay fit because most of us don't have jobs that keep us physically fit (or in the case of kids, they don't "get out and play" as much as they used to).  Also the cheapest food that is available is the worst for you but is the highest quantity that most people in the US consume which leads to so many people being overweight.  So the opposite (being skinny) is what's idolized.  Mostly it's wealthy people who have time to excersize and "personal trainers" and such to help them stay fit... the rest of us are on our own.\n\nBack a few hundred years ago, if you were overweight it was a major status symbol because adequate nutrition was hard to come by, and if you had enough food to be fat, you must have been really well off.  Again, what was attractive was the opposite of the average person who had to work hard at manual labor and probably didn't get enough to eat and so was skinny.\n\nTanning is another example... a while ago it was considered unattractive because if you were tanned it meant you were some serf working outside all day instead of being able to stay inside away from the sun.  Now it's the wealthy that have the most leisure time to spend outdoors so tanning is what's considered attractive.
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Its not just guys. Everyone is like that. Physical appearance mean alot. Even babies coo more to attractive people. You must not be very attractive. But, are you happy with the way you look? If not, fix it. If so, then screw everyone.\n\nYou know whats more attractive than physical beauty.......self confidence.
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annB, doesn't it really annoy you when THEY DON'T READ OR ANSWER THE QUESTION YOU ASKED?!?!\n\nYou said "physically" ans all these people are trying to demonstrate their 'reconstructed' selves by saying stuff like "ooh...personality".\n\nYeah, sure, a nice personality is best. But you said *physically*!\n\nSo...\n\n1) "Good proportions" and a natural look (but natural doesn't mean "no makeup",\n\n2) Sexy walk\n\n3) "Confident" body language\n\n4) Big smile\n\n5) t.i.t.s. & a.s.s (obviously!)\n\n:-)
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America is obsessed with being sexy. Women (and now men) fall into a trap of constantly trying to make themselves up to look beautiful. So, I would imagine that many Women want to know what they look like from someone elses perspective so that she can know whether or not she should diet or if a certain outfit isn't flattering. Men are doing it more frequently now too. So, this female stereotype is becoming more of an American stereotype.
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Both!\n\nThe speaker is criticizing your physical appearance but is complementing your honesty.\n\nWhether you appreciate somebody saying this about your depends on what you value more- looks or integrity.\n\nCheers :)
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Symmetry attractiveness is based on facial and bodily symmetry.  It's scientific!  We are brainwashed by our respective culture to think that genes (race, hair color/length and eye colour are what determines another's attractiveness)  Although height in men has been scientifically and unscientifically been proven to be a desirable trait.  In general men are attracted to youthful looking women hence the attraction.  This leads to our sexist attitudes of older women being "crones", "hags" etc while OLD men are "distinguished"  Since oxygen effects all people the same way we should all be considered old when the time comes.  But I digress.  If your friends didn't think you were pretty they wouldn't say anything to you about the subject of your looks.
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I was just considering this. The world is very appearance based, and when one does not meet the social definition of beauty then it becomes a discriminatory tool that gets used against people.  I think that on a global level there are too many definitions of beauty to pigeonhole individuals, but here in the states, the definitions of socially accepted beauty are so limited that people think it is acceptable to mistreat people on the basis of their appearance.  I do not feel that this is right and I am working toward changing this!
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Its Nothing Like That,\n\nIts Our Body and we want to look beauitiful, thats our choice.\n\nNothing religious i beleive
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Personality Issues and Appearances.
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looks, physic, how they look what they wear their walk, it depends.
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Human nature.  We are designed with features/bodily adornments (hair, eye color...) that are meant to be attractive to the opposite sex.  Unfortunately those physical features are the first impression to the opposite sex and hard to overcome if you are attracted to a particular body feature.  Human nature is physical attraction 1st and mental attraction 2nd.