Mexican and Mexican American Pop Culture: Beauty and Body Image
WHAT IS:
Pop Culture?
“Popular culture… is the totality of ideas, perspectives, attitudes, images and other phenomena that are deemed preferred through an informal consensus within the mainstream of a given society. Popular culture is heavily influenced by the mass media and permeates the everyday life many people.” -Wikipedia
Beauty?
Commonly defined as a quality of something that invokes pleasure and/or satisfaction.
Body Image?
It is: “the picture of our own body that we form in our mind, that is to say, the way in which the body appears to ourselves.” -Paul Schilder, author of the premier research on body image
WHAT DETERMINES BEAUTY?
- Biological predispositions?
- Perceptions of what seems unattainable (wealth, social status etc.)?
- Perceptions of people in power?
- Biologically humans are driven to want to find partners who are successful. Can a person’s desire for a successful mate lead them to follow society’s definitions of what is beauty?
- In societies, like Mexico, that have experienced colonization, or have been ruled by other groups, the definition of beauty is based on the prototype of those who are in power.
MODERN MEXICAN AND MEXICAN AMERICAN BEAUTY
HOW ACCULTURATION AFFECTS MEXICAN IMMIGRANT BODY IMAGE AND PERCEPTION OF BEAUTY
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