Saturday, May 19, 2012

Everyone Is Beautiful



Watch this video and you'll know what it has to do with the title of this post.
So in short, this video is just a preview of an American girl's documentary on Korean High School.
Their culture and the education system.
the first half of this video is about the education system. I never knew that their middle school classes end at 3.30pm or 4.30pm and their high school classes end at 9PM! but maybe because this particular school is an international school and all students lives in dorms. but 9pm is too much. 
the girl asked one korean about her hobby, and she said there was nothing much to do outside school and once she gets back to her dorm, she studies again. what a boring life!
so she stated at the beginning that some korean students actually study for 16 hours a day. crazy right? that means they only sleep for like, 4 or 5 hours a day?
and many students commit suicide due to the pressure they receive from their parents and also due to their own expectations. I wonder how their parents can deal with the fact that their child killed themselves because of them pushing them too hard, just to get good academic results.

and the other half of the video was about beauty and self-esteem. which is also a factor of students committing suicide.
everyone knows how popular plastic surgery is in Korea right? and maybe also because the school she did the documentary at was a girls' school so almost half the class wanted to get plastic surgery.
korean just have the perspective that skinny, fair skin and big eyes is the only way a girl is considered to be beautiful. okay, mayb not only in Korea but almost all around Asia.
but dont these girls know something called "make-up"???
yeah, maybe it wont make your nose look higher but still.
So, this American girl suggest that these korean girls need to have an icon or someone to look up to who doesnt have big eyes, fair skin, tall and skinny, so that they can change their perspective on "beauty".
I thought about this for a while and i think the best way to solve this problem is to ask all the members of male idol groups in Korea to state that their ideal type is a girl with small eyes, someone who isnt skinny or have fair skin. This would definitely help a lot.
all in all, girls will always be girls, they are never satisfied with their appearance.
Most importantly, we all need good ppl around us, friends and family, to make us feel beautiful.
Society will always be judging us, it just depends on whether we choose to care or not.
lastly, EVERYONE IS BEAUTIFUL IN THEIR OWN WAY. please dont go change how you look just because society tells you so.

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