but if that viewpoint isn't my own, whose would it be? that's what I meant when I said humans don't develop in a vacuum, everything that I or anyone else thinks comes from somewhere outside them. It's not an 'unconscious bias', I'm very much conscious of it, that's why I pointed it out.
I know it does. But as I said, you can't develop in a vacuum, if I didn't have one culture's ideas of beauty I'd have another's, would that be better? No-one finds everybody beautiful ( The hair thing was something I pointed out as something that is cultural, as opposed to a healthy body (there is such thing as a healthy body, no such thing as 'healthy hair', really) which I think must be somewhat universal.
I'm still not really sure what you mean by being 'portrayed as beautiful'..I think if you're in the West there are certain images of what beauty looks likethat you grow up with that are, among other things, European. If you're of non-European descent in a 'white' society, you have the complication that you relate to the European 'archetypes', but find them hard to relate to yourself because they don't look like you, and as that video seems to suggest, it's there from an early age. There may be other factors at work there, the girl at 0:39 looks very reluctant to choose the 'white' doll, almost as if she feels that's what the interviewer (who sounds white) wants her to say.
that makes sense to me, I think black men have come to represent a sort of hyper-masculinity somewhere in the public imagination. The main stereotypes about black men (both positive and negative) are violence, athleticism, big dick/good in bed, etc, they all conform to that.
