What are the beauty standards of the Middle East?

For example, in America thin, tan. and tall women are considered attractive, as are tall, strong men. Are the standards similar in the Middle East?What are the beauty standards of the Middle East?
In the Middle East, too thin is almost as bad as too fat. Muscles don鈥檛 make a woman attractive, a smooth, soft woman is preferable. The beautiful woman is the one who鈥檚 thin where she is supposed to be thin %26amp; big enough where she鈥檚 supposed to be big (you know the breast, the waster-hip ratio)What are the beauty standards of the Middle East?
i am from the middle east, so I've seen it all. some love the tan others like being olive-toned or whatever their natural color is. to be thin is popular . curves are not bad either but being ';fat'; or over weight is not popular at all. most people are not overweight. being too tall is not good. Report Abuse

Well yes, and not just in the middle east. All over the world, these that you mentioned are considered ';Beautiful.';





Black people were whitewashed into believing that everything African or Black was inferior, backward and ugly, while everything White or Caucasion was superior, beautiful and desirable. Yet this perceptual distortion could not be effective without a kind of mental slight-of-hand regarding the historical and cultural validity of Africa and African ';Black'; beauty standards.';








It is revealing that the prestigious CBS news program ';60 Minutes'; recently published an article highlighting actress Aishwarya Rai as, perhaps, the ';World鈥檚 Most Beautiful Woman.'; Not surprising, Miss Rai is a very light-skinned woman from India with sharp Caucasian-like features. The article also makes reference to White women of the past who were (and are) projected as the epitome of beauty and refinement. Women like Grace Kelly, Ingrid Bergman and Elizabeth Taylor.





The problem with this perspective is that it reeks with racism in that it assumes that White women (or those that look White) are the standard bearers for beauty and attractiveness and it makes these assumptions at the expense, neglect and denigration of the multitudes of Black women (in particular) and women of color(in general) through out the world. It is also disturbing because it is done without even a hint of the offensiveness and utter absurdity of it all.





It is as if the White media has become so enamored with the truth of its propaganda and so confident of its effectiveness on the psyches of other races and ethnic groups that it does not hesitate to make these ridiculous and arrogant declarations. And it does so over and over again.





Periodically, magazines and periodicals will announce in bold headlines that some White woman is the ';World鈥檚 Most Beautiful'; or that some White man is ';The Sexiest Man Alive'; thereby insinuating that Whites alone occupy the precipice of unrivaled beauty and desirability.





There is an old cliche鈥?which cuts to the heart of the matter. It is said that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, or perhaps more accurately, it could be said that beauty is in the mind of the beholder for it is within the mind that all perception, whether the sense of sight, taste, touch, smell or hearing are registered and conceived. Thus while Aishwarya Rai or Grace Kelly or Britney Spears, etc. may be quite beautiful to some, they may also be quite homely, ugly or repulsive to others who possess different standards of beauty and physical attractiveness.





Moreover beauty standards are perceived according to the cultural norms that people are accustomed to and this has a great influence on how the attractiveness of a person is perceived. For example the cultural norms and beauty standards of the Masai in Africa are different from that of the Eskimos in Alaska. And a woman or man ( regardless of how comely their outward appearance) would be considered repulsive if they exhibited inappropriate behavior in the morally straight-laced culture of the Middle East or even within some devout religious communities within America itself.
Check the following link at the header that says: ';The Beauty of famous Lebanese Women'; :)


http://www.lcnj.com/Lebanese_Women.htm





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