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Stated simply, perception is a process by which we make sense of the world around us.

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    Healthy beautiful women VS Skinny models

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     How each individual perceive beauty is a cognitive process, and it is  influenced both by social and psychological factors. We have to admit the fact that we perceive our surroundings, experience and communication differently. It is the main reason why, when we see a girl somebody might say that she is beautiful, somebody might deny that there is something special about her.

     But it is not the issue that I would like to discuss. I want to talk about prototype of a beautiful girl. Why in the last centuries the ideal woman had a plump figure, looked very healthy, and only recently there is a crazy fashion for a skinny, anorexic girls?

    Prototypes had changed severely; in fact, prototype is out cognitive schemata and it is occur while we are organising information. So what is a main reason for a such drastic changes?

     If to look back, couple centuries earlier all artists prayed the beauty of a pogdy women. Lets remember the famous Rembrandt paintings… The perception of a beautiful women was a healthy and strong to give birth for her children.

     What happened nowadays is - fashion took the main place in our world. It is no longer means that if you are a bit fatty you are beautiful. The main standard is 90-60-90 ,so, excuse me, if you are not like this you are not beautiful and not fashionable.

     And it is true. Look around you, all the brands are advertised by a tall, skinny models, who hardly can me called healthy. So in order to follow the fashion, millions of women all over the world starve themselves, they just want to be “beautiful”.

     It is a main problem ;our behaviour is based on our perception rather than on reality and it is deceptive.

     Twenty first century is crazy; women can do everything in  only to loss weight. Rich men always look for a models to accompany them. That is why anorexia nervosa and bulimia became the main problems nowadays.

     It is all we people who changed the prototype of a beauty and the consequences are disastrous. We need to do something with it.

January 25, 2008 Posted by alena2008 | Perception | | No Comments Yet