According to Katherine Sellgren's article in "Boys Suffer Poor Body Image, Say Teachers", many pupils try to imitate the body image from popular movie stars,and models that instill the body performance through media. As the results, boys continuously have low self-esteem and enormous pressure about their body image.
These days, the media is an important channel that influences all kinds of social activities. Especially movie stars, and celebrities have more influence to spectators than other careers in terms of dressing, gesture, performance, and rumors. Many people also believe that if they would like to be a famous person, they must do everything to make them good looking and attractive. It is clear that perfect body image is the first reason that people have to change themselves as actors or actresses' body image. This belief is extended to the children in UK that most of them change their eating routine and exercise in order to keep fit as popular performers' performance. The survey shows that there is an increasing percentage of boys who suffers and worries from poor body image, compared with girls. That's why, this is the teachers' responsibility to alleviate children's anxiety by convincing them to participate in compulsory body image and self-esteem lessons.
In my country, Thai adolescent also have the same trend with above-mentioned trend. They strongly believe that people who have perfect body image also receive much opportunity for prosperity. For example, a good-shaped and slender movie star earns a lot of money from the advertisement, modeling the dress, presenter of elegant merchandise brand. In contrast, people who are overweight are not usually accepted from others. However, this belief can lead to severe problems, such as people are diffident in their body image, or people accept and admire only slim and beautiful-shaped people. The examples clearly show that they will be classified and discriminated as social level. Therefore, teachers should change adolescent's idea of this problem and provide understanding and awareness of real good-looking people which come from internal behaviors ,not only slim and slender appearance.
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Reference
Sellgren, K. (2013, March 23). Boys suffer poor body image, say teachers. BBC News Education & Family. Retrieved March 25, 2013 from http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-21864312
Reference
Sellgren, K. (2013, March 23). Boys suffer poor body image, say teachers. BBC News Education & Family. Retrieved March 25, 2013 from http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-21864312
Do people who are better looking actually do better, have a greater likelihood of success, than the not so good looking? Perhaps the answer is "Yes. The beautiful people really do have better chances."
ReplyDeleteThat was the first question that occurred to me reading Arm's thoughtful responses. The second idea was that this is nothing new. Surely young people especially have, in every age and place, wanted to look attractive to others, and worried a lot about that. And puberty is puberty wherever and whenever you are.
The boys elect Ralph as leader, after all, for not much better reasons than that he is "the fair boy" (p. 7); that is, "his size and attractive appearance" (p. 22) - he is not the ugly fat boy, or the skinny boy whose "face was crumpled and freckled and ugly" (p. 20). If Ralph had been fat or unattractive like Jack, would he have been elected?
It was the same when I was a child in the 60s as in the slightly earlier that period Golding reports on.