Bella wrote:I personally think it is because blond hair is a very rare trait. There are about what 2 percent natural blondes left in the world? Same thing with the blue yes, they are a recessive trait whereas brown eyes are dominant. Brown eyes are very common. I am sure if it was the other way around and blue eyes were more common, then there would be more people getting brown contacts.
Blond hair is not particularly uncommon in whites, especially not Northern European whites. In my ethnic homeland, Sweden, over half of people have blond hair. Non-blonde women still color their hair.
That it being a rare trait doesn't really indicate why it would be desirable at all. Many traits are rare but not coveted. Cerebral palsy for instance is not widely emulated, nor is elephantitis. Nearly all theories about the evolution of light colored hair and eyes involve sexual selection.
Bella wrote:If blond hair is admired based on race, then why are not blond haired men admired as much as blond haired women are? I think this is solely due to mass media. The tall, dark handsome man is the hero just as the blue eyed, blond woman is the heroine. Blond haired men are not coveted as much as tan, dark haired men are.
Sexual dimorphism. It should also be noted that prewar blond men were more common in media and advertising. They became less common postwar due to concerns about aryan theosophy.
Bella wrote:While the media does add minorities in cartoons and movies; I disagree that it is full of anti-white propaganda. It is the media that emphasizes what women should look like and their ideal is the skinny, blue eyed blond. All over magazines, movies, commercials, books, ads, etc. Women are digitally altered to be shown thinner and lighter than they really are. There was a controversy a while back about a certain magazine lightening Beyonce’s skin color and a recent one about Self Magazine in where singer Kelly Clarkson was photoshopped to look thinner. The media conveys the message that a light skinned and thin woman is the ideal. The cases of anorexia and bulimia amongst women are much higher in nations where there is exposure to Western media.
The media certainly does promote certain ideals of beauty, but to a degree it has to follow actual preferences. Many women's magazines, notably Elle, have attempted to promote non-white models with little success. And almost no fashion outlet that I know of has ever shown models whose facial geometry substantially deviates from the phi mask. None the less, one can more and more non-white characters, disproportionate to numbers, in media roles and the promotion of non-whites into authority roles the typically do not hold. CNN also has practically become mixed race central for its anchors.
Of course this just covers representation, to say nothing about messages which I suppose is a different topic.
I agree with you on anorexia and bulimia, which is very sad and unfortunate. The media also over-sexualizes women, leading many girls to think that they need to seek sexual attention to please men and fulfill themselves.
Bella wrote:I also wanted to add that both India and Latin countries have been impacted by European imperialism. I think that plays a part in their reverence for white skin.
The situation in India far predates British rule, and if you wanted to blame an imperial factor you could blame the aryan invasion. The point about Latin America may be true, but as it is
men who hold power in Latin America it is odd that people there would covet white women while having no problem with powerful mestizo men.