Reflection+on+American+Beauty+and+standards

Since the beginning of time, love and beauty have been ideas surpassing and continuing through times of war, peace, sadness, and happiness. No matter what state a country, city, family, or conflict, love and beauty have always somehow prevailed and sometimes been the center of attention in our lives and cultures. Love and beauty have always somehow fueled destructive thoughts and actions just as how Toni Morison explains to us in //The Bluest Eye//. These “destructive” ideas of love and beauty are ones that will forever focus and shape our lives because it is within our human nature as Americans to center our lives and culture around them. Americans are obsessed with beauty and the media recognizes this. From magazines, TV shows, movies, and commercials, the media portrays American women as objects. Many American women feel that they should conform into a certain kind of beauty; this is just as how Pecola thought the only way she could be beautiful was by having blue eyes like the white girls she saw around her. Beauty in America is heading down a down path. However, on this page, I tried to show that there are some people who are trying to break the stereotype and trying to create a world that looks in beauty in many different ways for generations to come. Americans do struggle with change sometimes, especially when it comes to stereotypes, but I believe that Americans have the capacity to look at American beauty through a new set of eyes.

The American Voice