NAME: RUTHCHELL A.

CIRIACO

YEAR/SECTION/COURSE: 1 BS ACCOUNTANCY – C

How do you define beauty?

For me practically beauty means having a beautiful face where your eyelashes are long and curl,
your eyebrows is thick and perfectly shape, your nose is not flat, your lips is perfectly shape and its color
is rose pink, your teeth is perfectly perfect where you can smile perfectly, your face shape is perfectly
shaped but all of this is just outside beauty. For me the real beauty doesn’t define only outside
appearance but also define our inner beauty like having a confidence and determination to ourselves.
And I believe we are all beautiful in our different own ways and we are all unique and have different
flaws that made us beautiful in a special way.

How is beauty defined in your society?

My society is really something about high standards in terms of beauty. People judge easily
without appreciating individual’s beauty. For the past years and decades defining beauty in my society
also improved, in our generation today where social media influence lots of aspect in our life one of this
is defining beauty, today’s generation all people will do just to reach the standards of people in defining
beauty just like in social media accounts for having more followers and viewers sometimes people tend
to put make up and wear sexy things just to catch up the eye of people. In this way they can say that
they are beautiful by gaining such like this. For me people appreciate more the girls which have a lighter
skin color than those tan skins, they also appreciate sexier body’s than those body with fats, they also
appreciate more if your face doesn’t have any acne, I know that this is all wrong but what we can do, we
do not control their opinions and perspectives, I myself experience lots of judgement for not having a
sexy body and a lighter skin color which makes me for insecure to myself. This is the reality that I should
face and overcome, let’s stop this kind of attitude instead let’s appreciate each beauty and find
simplicity in it.

What are the cultural standards about beauty in your society?

For my own opinion I think my society today doesn’t have this cultural standard in terms of
beauty because I believe people nowadays are mostly confident in their selves and we have now our
own decisions and rights, we also have a freely society where beauty is something we feel about
ourselves. I think people now have opinions and judgements about each beauty but it does not describe
the cultural standards of beauty in my society. In my generation we don’t need to meet their standards
to be beautiful because we know from the moment that when we are born we already beautiful in our
different ways.

When and in what way beauty can be considered as advantage?

For me beauty can be considered advantage when in terms of like companies with good-looking
executive have advantage since they have more sales, another is people that is beautiful sometimes
have the most chances to find mates in their lives, another is when in terms of beauty they are more
trustworthy and likeable but of course this way they can be an advantage when you only look for outer
beauty , but I believe that we don’t need to be more advantage because of beauty that we have because
in creating us God never shows unequal judgement in creating us.
Is there more pressure on women to be beautiful than there is on men? Cite situations in your life and
lines from your favorite authors that would help establish your points.

For me both women and men experience this pressure when it terms to being beautiful but the
thing is in different ways. In women we are tend to be pressured when for example finding our mates it
is pressured because sometimes men are always choosing more beautiful and more attractive than
those who has low class beauties. Another is we are pressured when in terms of favoritism, just like me
in my situation me and my sister has a different kind of beauty but I can say my sister is more beautiful
the thing is when we have a reunion I am always forgotten because the beauty of my sister is more
attractive, I do not say that I am jealous with my sister the thing is that more beautiful women tend to
have more attention and by that we feel pressured in ourselves that is why we do some things to be also
beautiful like taking care of our skin, using of make ups to cover up the flaws we have in our face. In the
other side men can be also pressured if their fellow men are more improve or in the circle of friends he
is the only one different in terms of physical appearance. But all in all this pressure that we feel is just
like insecurities we have but I can say we don’t need to be pressured we just need to love the beauty we
have and just accept the fact that we are all imperfectly beautiful in all unique ways.