Tanzanian's and body image...

Posted by Meri-Tuuli on November 14, 2006, at 14:42:48

I was chatting to a very nice man from Tanzania today. We were discussing 'cultures' and he was saddened to see Western culture invading Tanzanian's own culture. Anyway, he was particulary concerned with skinny-ness. Apparently the ideal in Tanzania is that 'big is better' and they have beauty competitions where the women are all very heavy (his words, not mine).
How refreshing!
He was concerned that now things are heading towards Western style body ideals.
Kind regards
Meri
By Western culture I mean, Europe, North America. You know what I mean!

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