THE UNIVERSALITY OF BEAUTY Below are photos by Mihaela Noroc, who runs an amazing project called 'The Atlas of Beauty', where she travels the world in order to document and reveal the wonderful diversity in women and cultural beauty. The photos below stood out to me particularly because they reminded me that it's not just girls in Westernized cultures who struggle with their appearance. I think that most, if not all, women (and men) everywhere desire to be beautiful in one way or another. What it looks like changes from culture to culture, but I think the desire remains the same. For me, it simply changes the issue of 'body image' from an incredibly selfish one, to an incredibly human one. It grants me much needed perspective. The struggle of 'beauty' is not between me and my mirror, it is between mankind and his spirit. AMAZONIAN RAINFOREST CUBA ECUADOR ETHIOPIA PERU IRAN ROMANIA I'll never forget sitting on the floor of a woman in East Asia's house, listening to her talk about how she thought that she needed to lose weight. I was so surprised. This beautiful woman lived in a small village, about a five hour drive from the nearest city. She didn't have a car, internet, or magazines. She had nothing around her proclaiming to her that she should be thinner. And yet, there it was, that voice that I knew so well, whispering to her on the other side of the planet. The demons that haunt us aren't exclusive.
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