There is a
possibility that there could be a Chinese influence on our current western beauty ideal, the economic power gained by the Chinese allows them to project their beauty ideal all over the world and this has already had an impact on our
mainstream media today. However the Chinese beauty ideal has been under the influence of the western culture over many years and this has
allowed a
bricolage, where an individual can pick and mix different cultural
practices and
therefore transforming beauty ideals.
An example of this
bricolage is Lucy
Liu, she is a famous
actress / model who is from Chinese decent but holds many of those beauty ideals that the west does. She has played an 'Angle' from '
Charley's angles' and is portrayed as a sexy youthful modern woman, she has also starred in
FHM and more mainstream magazines. It appears that the beauty ideals held by the western culture can be
for filled by Chinese race as well as others.
