Book Title: Now and Zen
Pages Since Last Week:190
Pages Since Semester: 302
Weekly Summary: Nori was chosen to study abroad abroad in Japan with other students across the seven seas. Nori made new friends like Astushi, a Japanese local, and a few other abroad students while learning and touring around Japan.
Weekly Thoughts: When Nori and other students visited the onsen, the natural hot springs pool, she did not feel comfortable. Young girls, teenagers, and women today are universally under the pressure to look up to a certain standard of beauty. Some girls in the asian cultures, believe it is better to have light skin tone, bright eyes, and light hair( based on a teen survey). Media and widely accepted American culture tell you that beauty means only looking this way and nothing else. Not all girls are born with the light hair or bright eyes. Beauty is something that is within oneself and should not be based upon the peripheral vision. Happiness and comfortableness within oneself is true beauty.
1 comment:
It is true that girls/women feel obligated to look nice. A friend in my AP physics class did her project on how people rate each other's looks. Her studied showed that BOTH men AND women are harsher when they rate woman, compared to men. Interesting huh? Sometimes look matters very much to a person, but one point in their life-when they've come across that experience-they will realize beauty won't last.
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