Oscar Wilde Beauty

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Oscar Wilde: "It is only shallow people who judge by appearance. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible" (Davis). However, God has created all humans differently. This is why all people do not look alike. But now, people came up with the idea of having the perfect shape of their body and good appearance, this is the only issue everyone has to deal with. Some women want to get skinnier, while some do not care about their bodies at all. Other women even spend so much money on tanning salons just to change the color of their skin to look darker. There are so many reasons why people have that desire to be like someone else. They claim that people look and think differently about their own image. But most of the time, women are filled with desire about if they are skinny enough or not because they always wanted to be skinnier and prettiest. Furthermore, they thought that if they will be like that they will have so many guys chasing after them and they will love and take care of them for the rest of their lives. In my opinion, if a guy loves a woman, he would not look how fat she is or …show more content…
However, African American women will consider a working beautiful woman, who will know how to cook and raise children. But the criteria of the beauty only focus on society. Lastly, if woman or man living in this culture and they are not happy with their beauty, or if this person had any curse then it might turn in to a blessing. "According to Rodriguez's story, this conception is obviously difficult to live by, since it is not another culture that identifies a person. In other words, if one's culture attests that someone is not beautiful, there is nothing else to say about it: a person who does not fit in the criteria of beauty, will not be considered beautiful and will feel rejected"(Richard

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