Beauty Around The World

France

Looking natural is the most beautiful. French women wear special types of make-up that make it look like they’re not wearing any make-up at all!

Mauritania

Being overweight is thought to be the most attractive.

People try to eat as much food as they can in order to gain weight and be beautiful

Iran

People want smaller noses and plastic surgery is very popular. It shows that you are rich. Some people wear bandages or tape on their nose even if they didn’t get surgery.

DESCRIBING PEOPLE

Ask your partners the following question about his/her best friend. Make sure to listen carefully to what your partner has to say.

1- Is your friend usually in a good mood?

2- Is it important for your friend to be successful in whatever he/she does?

3- Does your friend notice your feelings?

4- Does you friend often give presents, or pay for lunch or a coffee?

5- Does your friend work hard?

6- Does your friend become angry or annoyed if he/she has to wait for something or someone?

7- Can you trust your friend with a secret?

8- Does your friend listen well when you are speaking?

9- Does your friend keep his/her feelings to him/herself?

10- Is your friend usually not worried by things, no matter what happens?

11- Does your friend think the future will be good?

12- Does your friend often change their opinion about things?

13- Does your friend often postpone things he/she has to do?

14- Is your friend happy one moment and then sad the next?

15- Does your friend like to be with people?

BEAUTY
For the Greeks beauty was a virtue: a kind of excellence. Persons then were assumed to be what we now have to call – whole persons. If it did occur to the Greeks to distinguish between a person’s “inside” and “outside”, they still expected that inner beauty would be matched by beauty of the other kind. The well – born young Athenians who gathered around Socratesfound it quite paradoxical that their hero was so intelligent, so brave, so honorable, so seductive – and so ugly. One of Socrates’ main pedagogical acts was to be ugly – and teach those innocent, splendid looking disciples of how full of paradoxes life really was.
They may have resisted Socrates’ lesson. We do not. Several thousand years later, we are more worry of the enchantments of beauty. We not only split off – with the greatest facility – the “inside” (character, intellect) from the “outside” (appearance); but we are actually surprised when someone who is beautiful is also intelligent, talented, good.
A beautiful woman, we say in English. But a handsome man. “Handsome” is the masculine equivalent of a compliment which has accumulated certain demeaning overtones, by being reserved for women only.