people in those cultures seem to just come to value beauty less
Is it “less” in the sense that their standards simply got higher and shifted the beauty curve, or in the sense of diminishing returns? Not sure I could operationalize this, but intuitively it feels like there is a difference between:
this person (beautiful by other country’s standard) seems repulsively ugly to me
this person seems pretty, but so are most people, so I am looking also for some other traits
Is it “less” in the sense that their standards simply got higher and shifted the beauty curve, or in the sense of diminishing returns? Not sure I could operationalize this, but intuitively it feels like there is a difference between:
this person (beautiful by other country’s standard) seems repulsively ugly to me
this person seems pretty, but so are most people, so I am looking also for some other traits