برای تمرین و یادگیری زبان، افزایش میزان دریافت اطلاعات خیلی خیلی مهمه. این که چه اطلاعاتی و از کجا دریافت میکنید هم البته مهمه. برای همین من، مهدی فکاری، قراره یک سری متن و مطلب فوق العاده براتون اینجا بذارم. امیدوارم لذت ببرید.
What makes a girl beautiful? The lines above are from the song not pretty enough, written and performed by Kasey Chambers, an Australian Folk. Rock singer and songwriter. The words tell us a lot about what it’s like to be female in a society in which media such as television, movies, and magazines define what it means to be beautiful.
In cultures where success and happiness are equated with being thin and attractive, “just like models or movie stars,” many young women are left either invisible or fat and unaccepted.
It might not surprise you to read that 75 percent of women in the United States think that they are “too fat.” But many people do not realize how these ideas about body image have affected teenagers and children. You don’t have to look much farther than a billboard sign, magazine advertisement, or popular television show to see how girls and women are being presented and to understand how it affects them.
On average, U.S. children aged eight to older spend almost seven hours a day watching television, playing video games, or reading magazines. Studies have revealed these trends:
- If they had just one wish, girls ages eleven to seventeen say they would wish to be thinner.
- Between the ages of ten and fourteen, the percentage of girls who are “happy with the way I am” drops from 60% to 29%.
- 80% of ten-year-old girls are on diets.
- Between 5 and 10 million teenage girls and young women have an eating disorder _extreme dieting_ that can be dangerous to their health.
- Teenage cosmetic surgeries more than doubled in the last decade and are growing at an alarming rate.
- 70% of girls say they have wanted to look like an actress. About 30% have actually tried to.
Young people can benefit from realizing how much they are being targeted as a consumer group and how media messages are used to either sell them products or convey messages about body image, self-esteem, social values, and behavior.
