Everything seems odd and hilarious when you live in a world where beauty represents everything. Everyone's attention is drawn to the issue of beauty. Before we went out, we all asked our housemate, "Do I look nice today?" Admit it: not only me, but you, too, have a need to appear attractive and acceptable in front of others. Of course, we all enjoy compliments and being called beautiful, but have we ever stopped to consider whether they are praising us? Or are they praising our phony cover? Would they still think we're attractive if they saw us without all the makeup and contouring? Is it because they are truthful, or because we told each other white lies? Personally, I believe that beauty is just a substance that we all use to get interest and praise.
There are numerous modern medical aids in the globe nowadays to serve people's attractiveness. To that end, we all know what South Korea is known for. There are a variety of things, including Kpop, Korean cuisine (Kimbap, Kimchi), the ongoing conflict with North Korea, and, most significantly, plastic surgery. Plastic surgery has been recorded on 74 individuals out of 10 000, which may seem like a tiny amount, but when compared to China's 6 and Thailand's 11, it's a significant number. Plastic surgery is the procedure of reconstructing or restoring any portion of the human body through surgery. The goal of this technique was to make people correspond to the world's beauty standards.
The beauty standard in this world appears to be an hourglass figure with little to no fat. And if you don't conform to this standard, you aren't considered attractive. Moreover, the images you upload on social media won't get as many likes as those who are fitted, which can be discouraging for individuals who see their photos get no likes. Under this gloomy world where beauty is everything, the human mind has been blinded and shallow, even if none of them lasted or genuine.
Social media did play a huge role in portraying the beauty standards, and it as well is a major contributor to the shallowness of the society. These social networking platforms mirror our superficial human nature. Why? People may freely express their emotions, opinions, and remarks on social media, which was fantastic until it went too far. They sometimes leave really harsh comments to individuals they don't even know, they hate just because something about that individual doesn't fit into their standard . An example would be from one of the articles talking about the world's ugliest, Lizzie Velasquez. She was a girl who stumbled among life at the age of 17 being labeled as the "ugliest lady". Well, she was born with a condition that prevents her from gaining weight; no matter how many calories she consumes in a day, she will never weigh more than 29 kilograms. With that much knowledge, you may conjure up a mental image of her and how she could appear. People criticize her because her look has been defined and propagated through films and posts on media websites. Some of the remarks were from people she had never even met before. This reflects how shallow humans are to merely hurl their harsh words on someone or even label someone "ugly" without understanding the essence of beauty because at the end of the day, only beauty matters to them throughout the journey. And let's admit it, we all have a habit of looking at individuals, making a first impression based only on their appearance.
"When we meet someone new a first impression is first about looks; only later do things such as personality, brains and character start to take on meaning", wrote one of the well-known psychologists. Social media has continued to encourage and persuade individuals to fake beauty and undergo procedures such as cosmetic surgery in order to conform to the world's beauty standards. "Surgeons are seeing a 31% increase in plastic surgery requests as a result of how people want to present themselves on social media accounts," according to a surgeon.
I'll accept the reality that Google, Facebook, and Instagram have completely deceived both you and me. Instead of waiting to meet someone for the first time, we used to go to Facebook (or other social media sites) and look for their faces, and sometimes even read through their postings and start evaluating them.
To summarize, humans' natural shallowness cannot be switched or changed, but individuals may begin to modify their values and think that a person's existence is defined not just by their appearance, but also by their inner minds and souls. The essence of human shallowness is reflected in social media. It makes a person more shallow for either side due to remarks and desires that originate from within. People will make terrible remarks on a stranger's site just because they don't fit the beauty standard that has been set for them on social media. This movement encourages individuals to change who they are in order to fit into the absurd guidelines of the internet's attractiveness.
"Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It's about knowing and accepting who you are." - Ellen Degeneres
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