1. What is your definition of beautiful?
- Someone physically appealing to the eye. A nice person.
- Someone with a nice physical appearance and a nice personality.
2. What is the ideal physical appearance (both male and female)?
- For guys, the ultimate is Joseph Gordon Levitt! Tall, skinng, brown hair, nice eyes, slim, no facial hair. For girls, bright eyes brunette, and slim
- For girls, slim and skinny, but not skin and bones! For guys, I guess they have to have a six pack, have to be muscular and toned.
3. Do you think different cultures look for different features in physical appearance?
- Yeah, I think some cultures look for different things. Like some cultures prefer tan skin over pale, and vice versa.
- Yeah, I think they look for characteristics outside their own ethnicity.
4. How do you think the media influences our perception of beauty? Is it negative or positive?
- I think the media creates an unrealistic standard for people to achieve. All the movies and pictures are edited and airbrushed; these big businesses all use photoshop, and it has a negative impact on the viewers.
- It's negative. The media says that girls HAVE to be slim or thin. "Just put a regular girl on for once."
5. Do you think people should change their appearance just to fit these standards? Why or why not?
- No, unless it them them happy. People shouldn't change for the sake of satisfying others.
- No, unless it's unbearable. Plastic surgery like breast implants is stupid. But breast reductions are different, they're for medical reasons.
6. Do you think advertisements have a negative or positive impact on teenagers?
7. Does the media affect you personally?
- Yeah, it has a negative impact as makes me feel like I'm not good enough.
- Yeah, it affects me personally, and it's negative.
8. Do you think poeople are prettier when they have a nice personality?
- Yes! A beautiful personality is a beautiful person.
- Yeah.
