the physical self

Amy Bloom

You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.

Gregor Mendel

first figured out how genes were passed from parents to offspring in plants, including humans.

Genetics

has a hand on our physical appearance. When heredity is at work, we find ourselves being the mirrors of our parents, which was the result their DNAs at work in us and for some, even looking like carbon copies of them.

contextual.

Defining beauty is blank. As culture decides the norms of the society, its concept of what is beautiful is similarly invoked from a cultural perspective.

Pollack, 1995

During the 19th century in the African country of Tahiti, it was recorded that some men and women were set aside in a special place for fattening purposes

Lakoff and Scherr (1989)

Beauty was not just a product of wealth, but a commodity in and of itself. In other words, it was no longer a matter of looking to wealth to find beauty, but of looking to beauty to find status. Now, beauty could give the illusion of wealth.

Rondilla, 2012

In the Philippines, the ruction of local standards of beauty can be traced from our colonial influences. Skin color signifies the value of the people in society.

Lighter skinned individuals are considered higher in terms of social status, and therefore, in the social rank compared to those with brown or darskin