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This document contains questions about the relationship between culture, globalization, and personal appearance. Specifically, it asks whether appearance and beauty are a form of social and economic capital. It also questions how racial and ethnic histories influence attractiveness standards in India and Brazil. Additionally, it discusses the link between pursuing beauty through modifications like lighter skin or plastic surgery and ideas of self-esteem, empowerment, and whether the poor should have access to beauty treatments. Finally, it acknowledges the need to critique these practices with an awareness of privileged Western perspectives.
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- 1. CULT 320: Globalization and Culture Kara Heitz, 11/13/2014
- 2. Questions: • Are personal appearance and beauty a kind of symbolic capital? Where do we see examples of this in both the articles? • What is the relationship between racial/ethnic histories and standards of attractiveness? Do these play out differently in India and Brazil? • What is the relationship between bodily transformations (such as lighter skin, plastic surgery) and ideas of self-esteem, self-worth, and personal empowerment? • Do “the poor have the right to be beautiful’? What is the connection between access to plastic surgery, self-esteem, and egalitarianism in Brazil? • What do it mean that we are critiquing of these practices from a privileged Western perspective?