₦airaland Forum

Do you believe any culture can ever convince people to idealise and regard these as standard of beauty that majority will agree with?

Sagamite:
There is no way television, celebrities and mass media (i.e. culture) can EVER make a women or men weighing 400 pounds be the standard of beauty. That beauty point is outside the range evolution/biology allows us to see as beautiful.

Obesity is so revered among Mauritania's white Moor Arab population that the young girls are sometimes force-fed to obtain a weight the government has described as "life-threatening".
Mauritania is one of the few African countries where, on average, girls receive more food than boys.

The treatment has its roots in fat being seen as a sign of wealth - if a girl was thin she was considered poor, and would not be respected.

Mauritania struggles with love of fat women




Because most Mauritanian love songs describe the ideal woman as fat, the health ministry commissioned catchy odes to thin women.

These efforts, combined with the rising popularity of foreign soap operas featuring model-thin women, has helped reduce the practice, especially among the country’s urban elite.

“My husband thinks I’m not fat enough,” complained Zeinabou Mint Bilkhere, explaining that her husband found her pretty during the last months of her pregnancy. Since giving birth, the weight has dropped, however, and with it his desire for her.

When I was little, my mother hit me to eat because I didn’t want to be fat. Now I want to be big because men like that,” said Bilkhere, who wants to gain more than 20 pounds.

But many men say they prefer voluptuous women.

Isselmou Ould Mohamed says he loves his wife’s 200-pound body and was pleased when she began adding even more weight during pregnancy. When he learned she had started walking around the soccer stadium to try to shed the extra pounds, he was revolted.

A man’s goal is to marry a woman that fills his house. She needs to decorate it like an armoire or a TV set,” said Seif l’Islam, 48, curator of a library of ancient Islamic manuscripts, which include numerous love poems to plump women.

Sagamite:
Please introduce Vincent and his stylized art.

Westerners had long misunderstood African art as "primitive." The term carries with it negative connotations of underdevelopment and poverty. Colonization and the slave trade in Africa during the nineteenth century set up a Western understanding hinged on the belief that African art lacked technical ability due to its low socioeconomic status.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_art#Influence_on_Western_art

Sagamite:
Yes, majority of black people are ugly because they are poor and under/mal/wrongnourished.

Sagamite:
Culture is a definer of the beauty point(s) across a aesthetic range (that is regardable as beauty) at which the majority of people declare others as beautiful.

Biology/nature/evolution sets the aesthetic range.

Believe me, culture can never make some ranges be termed as beautiful. Evolution trumps there.

She is not a rarity and not a beauty. She is an epitome of the average woman of those regions that is poor and with unattractive features.

Yes, majority of black people are ugly because they are poor and under/mal/wrongnourished.

That is not a "potential" thing, it is a "circumstance" thing. Evident in the Africans that are privileged are not ugly.

Black Sudanese women are from South Sudan and the fact is majority of South Sudanese women are fugly.

Rarity?

She is a thousand a penny in South Sudan, Burundi, Hinterlans of south Ethiopia, Central Africa Republic and Senegal

Americans do say "boku", just sounds more like "bookoo."

your comment is an insult to Sudanese women.

I've been fortunate see a few in real life and find them to be strikingly beautiful

Sagamite:
Don't compare Oluchi to this.

This is ugly. Seriously ugly. Oluchi I can accept to an extent even though she is not my cup of tea per se but I can see some beauty.

This is an insult to black women. It is like taking the below average looking white woman and then saying she is the peak of the beauty.

lakal:
But isn't this Tpia the same one that said we don't have tattoos in Yoruba culture? lol.

Obviously this guy wants money. Does it matter if the money comes from a white woman or a black one. Hhhmn. Nawao. The way pple dey reason for NL

SEFAGO:
^Shhite man dont lose ground to dumb people like Tpia. Are you a pu/ssy?

SEFAGO:
If you hanged out around as many oyibo people like I do and not only Nigerians you would not be making such dumb mistakes. Broaden your horizons