It's hard to say about other listeners. One of my friends in college (she's now my sister-in-law) was Chinese American, and she told me that she had real trouble thinking of herself as attractive because she wasn't white and because, even if she were, her features didn't conform to the cultural standards of beauty that she'd seen all her life.
In my opinion, she was (and still is) quite attractive, but even though she knew that she'd internalized a false message, I don't know that she ever really managed to get rid of the feeling that she could never be attractive.
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Date: 2006-07-20 03:06 pm (UTC)In my opinion, she was (and still is) quite attractive, but even though she knew that she'd internalized a false message, I don't know that she ever really managed to get rid of the feeling that she could never be attractive.