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Originally Posted by Shell
...Squeeb, dippin was not referring to physical features of various nationalities that we're born with. He's steroptyping American women as wearing more make-up, "painting" their permed hair blond, and wearing baggy clothes and padded bras....as opposed to Brazilians and Europeans
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How am I stereotyping? I am not doing any oversimplifications, or saying that it is universal, nor am I making any sort of value judgment. Beauty standards are what they are, and if you think any of that is inherently negative, that is your problem, not mine.
The idea that any comment about a group of people is inherently stereotypical is silly. We can talk about general cultural differences, and doing so doesn't mean one is reducing a complex collective picture to a caricature of reality.
In fact, we talk about collective aspects of groups of people all the time, without reducing them to that difference or ignoring variation within a group.
Ignoring that there are cultural differences across nations and groups is ethnocentric at the least.
Now, whatever made you feel so disrespected from my post is entirely in your head. I've yet to see how noting that American women, on average, use more make up or more hair products than women in the largest European nations is some how stereotyping or offensive. If for no other reason than the fact that it is an observation that is backed up by actual market data!
Similarly, fashion (and Im not talking about haute couture here, but every day style) is a collective phenomena that can be easily observed and tracked. Or are you going to say that there is no difference between what you'd expect to see in a beach in Destin, FL and what you'd see in Mallorca, Spain?
So, once again, whatever value judgments you got from my posts are all in your head, and I'd appreciate it if you still feel insulted by my post that you actually spell out what you have a problem with, instead of little passive aggressive posts that try to suggest something I did not at any point suggest.