Conventionally, beauty is a phrase, which the society associates with femininity, age and tenderness. In the American culture, the ideal beauty relates with youthfulness, physical appearance and delicacy. Almost everybody struggles to appear young. In her masterpiece, the cute factor, Natalie anger identifies features or qualities of cuteness versus beauty.
She associates beauty with tender age, life success, victory, and public admiration. However, the perception on cuteness lies in the human mind. On the other hand, the culture relates cuteness with complementation, youthfulness and attractiveness, a tradition with which the Americans struggle to keep in pace.
People equate beauty to body elegance and perfection while cuteness relates to clothing, styles and personal presentation. Angier also describes beauty and cuteness in relation to the American society. Natalie gives a distinction of beauty and cuteness through description of elegant features of young ones in the animal kingdom.
According to Angier, the presentation of cuteness is always uniform, common and prone to alteration or change. It is natural for the human mind to note or describe somebody or something as cute. Authentically, anything that is appellant to the eyes qualifies as cute. However, as a complement, it can be either positive or negative. Scientists relate cuteness to enhancement in survival rate especially when it comes to young ones.
Naturally, if the babies could be ugly, then their parents could automatically desert them. Thus, the reason why cuteness is a definition related to a baby, puppy or cub among others. However, a cute person, child or young one may not necessarily be beautiful. Beauty is permanent. However, it is rare to find because of the distinct process it entails. Something might appear cute. Nevertheless, on the contrary, it is ugly.
Angier correlates beauty with personality rather than elegance and physical attributes. People struggle to become cute, fashion industries in the contemporary times make items that can make women cute and attractive to boost their business. While cuteness is prone to deformation by nature and the surrounding environment, beauty remains permanent. More over, beauty is maturity, tough and economical.
On the contrary, cuteness is soft, immaturity, extravagant and impulsive in nature. For instance, a person may spend a lot of money to undergo cosmetic surgery. Some buy cosmetic products like facial powders, creams or fashionable clothes at high prices. However, due to the contentment of a beautiful person he or she may never invest her money in beauty products.
Personally, I agree with Natalie’s description of beauty as a natural being without much transformation but have a high level of admiration. In the contemporary society, a cute person pass as sexually attractive because of the body accessories an individual may wear.
They lack contentment and thus, the reason why they seek public opinion on their appearance or looks. Furthermore, it is easier and cheaper to attain cuteness than beauty. Therefore, beauty and cuteness have a close relationship. However, they are detachable as it is the case with Angier.
Angier defines beauty as a unique and queer feature that is rarely common in the society. It is difficult for an individual to transform her physical features into beauty because even any alteration on the body can never spoil a person’s beauty. For instance, Natalie writes that even a pimple has no ability to alter beauty.
This means beauty is beyond body features or what physical eyes can observe. A beautiful person receives public admiration and support. While beauty industries struggle to manufacture facial product, they only enhance cuteness and not beauty. Beautiful souls have high self-esteem, self-confidence and consequently, have attractive behavior.
High self-esteem means the person will not change her appearance at it is the case with cuteness. On the contrary, Angier closely relates beauty with brutality because of its inability to change even in extreme circumstances like body deformation.
Whether a person is old or young, he or she may pass as beauty or ugly. There is no much effort that can alter the situation. Therefore, beauty is satisfaction with self-appearance, body image and personality.
Cuteness is delicate, harmless, vulnerable to distortion or heartbreak and helpless due to physical inability. The aforementioned virtues only lie with young ones. Therefore, Angier closely relates Cuteness with age. Infants, puppies, and baby are some of the features the American culture associates with cuteness.
The delicate body of an infant, the tender smooth skin and shabby face among others are some of the essential qualities of cuteness. According to Americans, youthfulness correlates with cuteness. The bright, delicate, attractive features of a child and colors are a definition of the youth. Americans may flock into a zoo to view a newly born cub because of its youthfulness.
Armed with cameras and other forms of recording devices, they make sure they take photos of young ones for future admiration and close relationships. The fashion industry in America manufactures or designs baby-like clothes for adult women. Women wear small skirts, which make them look like kids or preschoolers.
The cosmetic industry presents products, which make sure an adult’s face is smooth, soft and distinct like that of a child. Americans spend high amount of money to purchase beauty products to enhance their physical features as that of a baby. Therefore, the effort in, which both the industries present a child as cute, has created a culture in America whereby everybody wants to look like one.
In addition, the advertisement industries use baby-dolls in their features to compel Americans to buy their items. A baby is expensive and hard to get. Therefore, industries use that strategy to earn more profits. Some young adults wear children clothes because of the pernicious discernment that a child equates to cuteness. Other Americans love cartoons.
Some companies use them in their promotion to increase their sales. Commonly, cartoons are form of entertainment offered to children and not adults. However, currently, adults give them more attention than children do. The use of bright colors and children games are some of the features associated with cuteness thus, the reason to why the adults in American love them.
Therefore, as per the human mind that childish features are cute, the American automobile, entertainment, advertisement and clothing industries among others promote their products using dolls and other characteristics of a child.
However, the salient features of a baby are to attract the attention and sympathy of their mothers/caretakers. Evolutionary, the human mind has to like a child in order to increase their chances of survival.
Like the mature adults, who put on children’s wear, the old people also fall in the same class. American description of a youth as cute has raised many activities in the old folks. The old people are not only happy to see puppies and cartoons. However, they also modify they body features through beauty accessories to look younger. Sometimes, there is a reversal of roles.
The children perform adult’s duties while adult perform children duties. While the children may be unaware of the term, ‘cuteness’ the adults are aware of why they are taking an opposite course in their lives. The practice is only to motivate the old people in their mind that they are young.
Sometimes, the old people present behavior of children like giggling, crying and constant change of moods because of their mind assertion that a child is cute.
In brief, a child is a product of the society but also a child is the backbone behind cuteness. People may interchangeably define the terms cuteness and beauty. However, the two terms have different characteristics. Angier gives a distinction between beauty and cuteness as per the American culture. According to her beauty lies beyond the human mind, it is permanent and unique.
Sometimes beauty is harsh or brutal because of the tough features. On the contrary, cuteness is tenderness, child-like and changes with the environment or personal efforts. While beauty leads to admiration, people use cuteness to seek attention.
Cuteness is for sexual appeal while beauty is more about respect and personality. The pernicious presentation of cuteness in American culture as superior has led to chaos in the society. The American culture perceives the youth as cute. Consequently, everybody including businesspersons is using the strategy of youthfulness as a promotion strategy. In sum, while beauty lasts, cuteness is for a short time.