1. Components of Culture: Values

5. Or perhaps one of these women:

7. How about 100 years ago? How are these women different from today’s version of beauty?

9. Ears and mouths are features commonly accented… Women from Ethiopia

10. Adornments for the mouth can include tattoos and jewels for the teeth. Girl from Borneo Maori Woman with Moko

11. Here beauty accents are focused on the face and head… Mangbetu Woman Nigerian Woman

12. although other parts of the body have also been emphasized, such as the feet. 3 ” S H O E S Sketch of a woman’s bound feet

14. In some cultures thinness might be a reflection of physical fitness…

16. Thinness has not always been a Western standard of beauty. Painting by Peter Paul Rubens

17. Nor is thinness the standard everywhere in the world today.