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women tend to prefer very masculine men, and men tend to prefer very feminine women.
That was simple, right? But wait a minute…what do “masculine” and “feminine” mean? How do we tell the difference between them? And isn’t that still just cultural rather than biological? After all, pink used to be worn mainly by men and blue was considered a feminine color, and now we have the exact opposite, so what am I talking about?
I’m talking about neoteny. Neoteny is the tendency of an organism to retain into adulthood the characteristics of a juvenile. Pick any species. Look at a picture of the babies of that species. Now look at a picture of an adult. The more alike they look, the more neotenous that species is.
Humans are very neotenous, especially compared to something like frogs or insects. But within our species, there can be a very sharp difference between the appearance of adult males and adult females. That’s true in some other species—female insects and arthropods are often larger than the males, for example, or male birds are often brightly colored while the females are drab and well camouflaged. In humans, though, the distinguishing characteristic is neoteny.
As infants, boys and girls look alike. If we didn’t put them in different clothes and cut their hair differently, they’d remain pretty indistinguishable until puberty. There’s a weird bit of back and forth as kids go through puberty, where the girls get taller than the boys for a while and then the boys catch up, but by the time it’s all finished, grown women look more like little girls than grown men look like little boys.
Forgive my Photoshop ineptitude, but here’s a comparison. At the top, we have an androgynous child, and at the bottom, a woman and a man both about 20-years old. Observe that the man’s face deviates further from the shape of the child’s face than the woman’s does.
When the testosterone kicks in, it starts changing a person’s appearance drastically away from a childish appearance. The shape of the face changes—thick, heavy jaw; thick, straight eyebrows; larger, wider nose—the shape and size of the body, facial hair, a deeper voice. If you look at a 13-year-old boy and a 25-year-old man from a distance, there’s no confusing them. But if you look at a 13-year-old girl and a 25-year-old woman from a distance, you might easily believe them to be about the same age. The boy might have a little peach fuzz on his lip, and if he’s an early bloomer, he might have gained some height and muscle; but it’s just as likely that he might be mistaken for a ten-year old. The grown man, though, is taller, heavier, a different shape.
Among females, the differences are less distinct. They start out with high voices, delicate features, large eyes, and little body hair. The more attractive ones pretty much stay that way, as estrogen inhibits testosterone. A grown woman might never develop pronounced secondary sex characteristics like wide hips or breasts of noticeable size. On the other hand, some adolescent girls develop these traits very early on, to a degree far more pronounced than in some adult women. The point here is that it’s easier for a grown woman to pass as a girl—or even a boy—than it is for a grown man to do so.
One of the purposes of these secondary sex characteristics is to allow us to identify those individuals who have high levels of testosterone or estrogen, as they’re strong indicators of a likelihood of reproductive ability. At the very least, it makes it easier to sort out the males and the females. The ones that look like they’re somewhere in the middle are less likely to be selected as mates.
“Okay,” you may be saying, “but what’s any of this got to do with the original question about beauty and race?”
Good question. It so happens that some races are more neotenous than others. Generally speaking, East Asians are the most neotenous, Africans are the least neotenous, and Europeans are somewhere in between. What this means is that, in general, both male and female East Asians are more feminine than their counterparts in other races. Both male and female Africans are more masculine than their counterparts in other races.
The effect of this is that men of all races are likely to find Asian women to be the most “feminine” (that is, neotenous), and therefore the most attractive. On the other end of the spectrum, women of all races are likely to find African men to be the most “masculine” (that is, least neotenous), and therefore the most attractive. Ever wonder why so many white guys pair up with Asian women and white gals pair up with black men, but it’s far rarer to see Asian men with white women and black women with white men? Or for that matter, why it’s so much more common to see black men with Asian women instead of Asian men with black women? That’s why. (Yes, there are some cultural components to that dynamic as well, at least in North America, Japan, and South Korea, but this tendency cuts across cultures. And yes, there are plenty of exceptions to all of these statements. I’m talking about general trends.)
The video below explains this theory well
Globalisation has it benefits but its also has it problems and this is one of the problems .Globalisation is a new phenomenon and its was never suppose to happen . I feel sorry for my ricecels but the cat is already out the bag and you cannot change asian womens mind anymore its only going to become worse and i suggest to go back to your homeland.
Peace.
women tend to prefer very masculine men, and men tend to prefer very feminine women.
That was simple, right? But wait a minute…what do “masculine” and “feminine” mean? How do we tell the difference between them? And isn’t that still just cultural rather than biological? After all, pink used to be worn mainly by men and blue was considered a feminine color, and now we have the exact opposite, so what am I talking about?
I’m talking about neoteny. Neoteny is the tendency of an organism to retain into adulthood the characteristics of a juvenile. Pick any species. Look at a picture of the babies of that species. Now look at a picture of an adult. The more alike they look, the more neotenous that species is.
Humans are very neotenous, especially compared to something like frogs or insects. But within our species, there can be a very sharp difference between the appearance of adult males and adult females. That’s true in some other species—female insects and arthropods are often larger than the males, for example, or male birds are often brightly colored while the females are drab and well camouflaged. In humans, though, the distinguishing characteristic is neoteny.
As infants, boys and girls look alike. If we didn’t put them in different clothes and cut their hair differently, they’d remain pretty indistinguishable until puberty. There’s a weird bit of back and forth as kids go through puberty, where the girls get taller than the boys for a while and then the boys catch up, but by the time it’s all finished, grown women look more like little girls than grown men look like little boys.
Forgive my Photoshop ineptitude, but here’s a comparison. At the top, we have an androgynous child, and at the bottom, a woman and a man both about 20-years old. Observe that the man’s face deviates further from the shape of the child’s face than the woman’s does.
When the testosterone kicks in, it starts changing a person’s appearance drastically away from a childish appearance. The shape of the face changes—thick, heavy jaw; thick, straight eyebrows; larger, wider nose—the shape and size of the body, facial hair, a deeper voice. If you look at a 13-year-old boy and a 25-year-old man from a distance, there’s no confusing them. But if you look at a 13-year-old girl and a 25-year-old woman from a distance, you might easily believe them to be about the same age. The boy might have a little peach fuzz on his lip, and if he’s an early bloomer, he might have gained some height and muscle; but it’s just as likely that he might be mistaken for a ten-year old. The grown man, though, is taller, heavier, a different shape.
Among females, the differences are less distinct. They start out with high voices, delicate features, large eyes, and little body hair. The more attractive ones pretty much stay that way, as estrogen inhibits testosterone. A grown woman might never develop pronounced secondary sex characteristics like wide hips or breasts of noticeable size. On the other hand, some adolescent girls develop these traits very early on, to a degree far more pronounced than in some adult women. The point here is that it’s easier for a grown woman to pass as a girl—or even a boy—than it is for a grown man to do so.
One of the purposes of these secondary sex characteristics is to allow us to identify those individuals who have high levels of testosterone or estrogen, as they’re strong indicators of a likelihood of reproductive ability. At the very least, it makes it easier to sort out the males and the females. The ones that look like they’re somewhere in the middle are less likely to be selected as mates.
“Okay,” you may be saying, “but what’s any of this got to do with the original question about beauty and race?”
Good question. It so happens that some races are more neotenous than others. Generally speaking, East Asians are the most neotenous, Africans are the least neotenous, and Europeans are somewhere in between. What this means is that, in general, both male and female East Asians are more feminine than their counterparts in other races. Both male and female Africans are more masculine than their counterparts in other races.
The effect of this is that men of all races are likely to find Asian women to be the most “feminine” (that is, neotenous), and therefore the most attractive. On the other end of the spectrum, women of all races are likely to find African men to be the most “masculine” (that is, least neotenous), and therefore the most attractive. Ever wonder why so many white guys pair up with Asian women and white gals pair up with black men, but it’s far rarer to see Asian men with white women and black women with white men? Or for that matter, why it’s so much more common to see black men with Asian women instead of Asian men with black women? That’s why. (Yes, there are some cultural components to that dynamic as well, at least in North America, Japan, and South Korea, but this tendency cuts across cultures. And yes, there are plenty of exceptions to all of these statements. I’m talking about general trends.)
The video below explains this theory well
Globalisation has it benefits but its also has it problems and this is one of the problems .Globalisation is a new phenomenon and its was never suppose to happen . I feel sorry for my ricecels but the cat is already out the bag and you cannot change asian womens mind anymore its only going to become worse and i suggest to go back to your homeland.
Peace.
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