When us westerners look at the media, we could be forgiven for thinking the ideas about male beauty are the same in every corner of the world. However just because we don’t see it, doesn’t mean that every culture values and espouses exactly the same things.
Buzzfeed has come up with a great short doc which looks at ideas of male beauty in 12 different countries from South Korea to Nigeria. It uses a variety of facts and figures to find out what those different countries like, from the popularity of tattoos in Britain to a move towards romantic leading men in Turkey.
However despite the differences it has to be said that if the prettiness on display is anything to go by, there are still plenty of similarities in what people think are hot, as these studs would be considered good looking in whatever country they happened to be. In fact I was waiting for the country that liked fat, balding guys who are in their 50s, but strangely enough it never arrived.
You can take a look at the interesting and, err, visually pleasing film below.
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