Essay On Culture And Body Image

In the past month, I have researched three articles dealing with culture and body image. This topic remains vital in today’s age for it has dangerous effects and outcomes. People tend to strive to do their best to be socially accepted even when it came to dangerous measure. Not only not being accepted, a few are bullied and judge for how they look, which is not right for people to do. The controversy intended for this topic is to stop others from aiming to look and be like someone else. Also for people to stop trying to force them to be like anyone else. I don’t have a personal experience with my own body image, but my brother. When he stood around ten or eleven, he began to eat more and it showed. He was constantly picked on about his weight. My brother would just accept it and be sad all the time and just stay in his room. He never stood up for himself, but I always did for him and would threaten the boys that I would beat them up. Even though we weren’t close, I still protected him. He soon tried to constrain himself to throw up. I caught him one time and told him that it wasn’t right to do that. I told …show more content…
Just because of how they appear, people spread rumors and say cruel words to and about them. “Bullying and Body Image” is similar to the “The Culture Bites Fuji” and “Kids as young as 5 Concerned About Body Image,” as they both discuss body image and the harms it causes. Also, they all talk about turning to the extremes for dieting and later cause eating disorders. They also have an influence on why they want to change and be socially accepted. The difference been this article is that it explains the bullying side of the problem, which is also a key cause of them harming themselves. ““Bullying and Body Image” gave me a different prospective of the bullying side and made me understand why young adults do the things they do to lose weight or gain to fit