[00:00.00]Uint 18 Beauty

[00:04.43]Lesson 1 What Is Beauty?

[00:09.07]Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

[00:12.60]In 1878,when Margaret Wolfe Hungerford wrote,

[00:16.77]"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder",

[00:19.70]she argued that individual opinions varied

[00:22.30]about what accounted for beauty.

[00:25.11]Standards of beauty change across

[00:26.91]different times and differernt cultures.

[00:30.41]Traditions and fashions.like society itself,

[00:34.13]change and adapt with time.

[00:36.26]so it is reasonable that

[00:37.41]our perceptions of beauty change as well.

[00:41.13]In 19th century Europe,

[00:42.78]women used to wear corsets

[00:44.12]to achieve a body-shape,

[00:46.00]that is no longer considered to be desirable.

[00:50.06]Men would wear woollen shawls

[00:51.62]across their shoulders.

[00:53.52]It is hard to imagine

[00:54.62]that they would be seen as attractive

[00:56.13]in the 21st century.

[00:58.63]Nowadays,it is estimated that

[01:00.37]in the Western world,

[01:02.10]one in every ten people have tattoos

[01:04.93]or a form of body art.

[01:07.50]In the past,some cultures use to

[01:09.35]mark criminals with tattoos,

[01:11.43]so that they could be easily

[01:12.90]identified and avoided,

[01:15.26]certainly not so that they would be admired!

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