Actually this post is rather random. But sometimems i really do wonder if our sense of beauty is greatly blinded by western influence.

I mean come on, for asia's rising economies, beauty paegents come along with economical modernisation. And in these contests, it is features such as being slim, being independet, being tall etc that influence a contestant's chance of winning. But for asian countries, isn't this a bit superficial?

Firstly, we aren't born to be like that, so why set that as a criteria for judging. No matter what, it's only the minority who are tall. And features like big eyes and high noses, those are caucasian features for goodness sake. And this is precisely the problem with asian countries.

In the attempt to westernise, they follow western culture blindly. Just that mdm ycm had sad, we do not accept the good points all the time. If one's culture had always deemed someone plum with small eyes as beautiful, why modify this cultural agreement just for the sake of copying some western standards? Mite as well just hire some caucasians to represent ur country?

It's just particularly prominent in how we organise beauty paegents that exhibit our blind following of western cultures. Maybe this is not too bad. But like what mdm ycm said, we take in a lot of crap stuff a lot of the tiems. Why do we swear all the time for example? I admit i am also guilty of this, but what is the root of the problem? Can't we learn something from the etiquettes of western gentlemen or ladies? Why are we turning our like some uselss american gangster?