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About Me
- Nitin Deckha
- PhD - cultural anthropology. Did research in London England Worked in advertising in New York and consumer research in Toronto before taking up teaching Some things I want to do: travel down the western coast of India, from Mumbai to Kerala; drive a Vespa in Italy; visit Singapore, Dubai and Santiago, Chile
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I believe that everyone is an individual in their own way. Although the society grows us up with certain behavioristics, we can still stand out, dress a certain way, and feel certain ways about how people dress. Lookism is a very good term to describe differentially between others, while still placing you in a group
Everybody should just express him/herself with his/her own way.
we should not discrimanate people or threat with prejudice. Stereotping will just create a world boring not creative and not unique.
Beauty is commercialized to support fashion world and media. But our existence shouldn't be rely on our apperance.
Hovewer from the beginning of the world, beauty was always the winner. Maybe the beauty understanding was different but it was an important issue. if you are good looking you can go to the king 's bed then become the second authority in the world or now what happen is if you are good looking you go faster in the business you have more promotion...(according to resarch)
it's maybe a bilogic reaction why we have weakness for looking.
and the bad news is nietche was very ugly.
fusun uzun
Society allows us to individualize ourselves with style and cultural influence.
If someone decided to wear a certain thing or listen to a certain type of music, it is strongly influenced by society, but does not mean free-will. People who want to fit in, will go out of their way to do so.
We are able to resist cultural and social demands by trying to have our own style. Colouring our hair, wearing clothes that went out of style in the 70's and trying to be unique. Despite any efforts, there are many other people with the same 'style' or 'trends'.
We can only have free will to a certain extent. I don't believe there is any way to fully resist social/cultural demands. If we were to move into the forest and live secluded from society, then maybe you could shape yourself to be free from social/cultural demands. In the world that we live in, the only way to survive is to shape yourself to your surroundings.
We can assert individuality from the way we look and think. We choose what we want in life by using our conscience, and sometimes influence, to make decisions. However, our subconscience may play a role on what we choose as well without even realizing it. They way we present ourselves amongst others is somewhat of an icon of what we stand for. Even if it is unintentional, we represent ourselves best in the human figure—speech comes afterwards because first impressions are usually based on looks.
There are different ways of asserting free will and resist social/cultural demands. If you did not want to be controlled by the media with fashion, you would simply be a nudist. If you did not want to become writer, you would not write…and so on. We choose who we are by the choices we make which leads to free will—outside influences can only give opinions and suggestions for individuals to find their own free will to seperate them from the rest of society (being unique).
Everybody will say lookism is not good. However, those who say it also instinctively judge people by their looking.
eg, those who look nice have greater chance to get a job in an interview.
We should all assert our individuality, but not necessarily through our body. Tall and strong guys don't necessarily become basketballers.
To eliminate lookism in our society, everyone needs to make effort. we should develop our individuality through many ways, develop our interests, deal with people with our real personality. In this way, the sterotype thinking will not be there anymore.
If ‘look’ means that someone is just good looking, then influence of the social stereotype is immense—media has already created (and still doing so) an ideal picture of what is ‘good look’—for men, it is square jaw, straight nose, fare complexion, high chick bone, minimum 6 ft tall, etc. and for women, 36-24-36 is the last word. The result? Those who don’t meet the above mentioned criteria, usually unjustifiably suffers from low self esteem! (And media is ready to sell ‘confidence’ to them in disguise of a line of personal care products). Very few individuals have ‘free will’ to accept themselves as it is, whatever they were born with.
I think it is the personality that always wins hearts and sells itself; good look is just one of the component of someone’s personality. No matter how so called ‘ugly’ one may be, it is the intelligence, wit, energy, politeness, positive attitude and confidence reflected in one’s face make his/her beautiful. There’s an old saying, “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” (Better works with ‘beer-holders’!)
However, whatever position we take about ‘lookism’, nobody can deny the importance of grooming. And I think grooming should be the only criterion to make a judgment about someone’s look if necessary, not someone’s physical features.
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