Thiland is home to the Karen Padaung tribe, the woman of this tribe wear multiple brass rings round their neck, arms and legs. These rings are the most prominent sign of female beauty and status, the more rings the more beautiful, as a result, long necks are desired as more rings can be fitted.
As a white middle class male i find it hard to see this as beautiful, the beauty ideals that have been enforced into me from primary socialisation differ from those of the Karen Padaung tribe. This could this be the most important factor in race deciding beauty, in these certain culture's the more rings the more desirable, however much this differs from the western cultural view on beauty there are links to one another. The practice of wearing jewelry is common in the western culture, for example the US sell over 30 billion dollars of jewelry to domestic users only. Jewelry is used all over the world to show class and wealth so in that sense the western culture and the Karen Padaung tribe's beauty ideals don't differ as much as i first thought.
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