It again makes me question, though; why does our culture regard a tan as attractive? This is the opposite of some Asian cultures. And I must admit, I feel like I look better when I have 'some color'. Women spend millions on makeup to make their face appear as if they do. Does our culture affect what we find attractive? If so, what does that say about how we choose who we marry and date? Would we not have been attracted to the same person if we had been raised in a different society?
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If that study was conducted in Galveston, I seriously doubt the 145 subjects made up a representative sample. As a Texan, I would say that the majority of the people on the beach in Galveston are…um…a little off.
If I'm not mistaken, I think it used to be that certain parts of American society thought a tan was unattractive. I'm shooting from the hip here (too lazy to Google it right now), but rich people used to think that tans were for the laborers who worked in the fields, and therefore it was a symbol of status (and thus attractiveness I presume) not to have a tan.
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