Curly hair VS Straight hair August 12, 2008

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Okay so i was watching Good morning America on August 12th 2008, it was on about 8:20 something in the morning and it was a story about straight-ism vs curly-ism….curly and straight hair discrimination….is the best way i can explain it. Basically they took a picture of a woman with straight hair and a second pic of her with curly hair. Show it to a group of men, and asked them to grade her on a level from 1-10 ,10 being that they really wanted to date her and 1 being the complete opposite. Well i was immediately drawn to this story until i saw how limited they went with it. First of all they had a group of all white men. She was a white women. And every culture has there idea of what beauty is, so when they gave her a more Afrocentric curly hairstyle, of course they graded her low! Then when she had her hair straight they graded her slightly higher. In my opinion i think that maybe they just didn’t like the way she looked period, irregardless of her hair texture…but thats just my opinion. Then she later went to a school of kids ( all white…what a surprise there). She asked the kids to run to either the photo of her with straight or curly hair, the one they run to will be the one they like the best. Once again, they chose the straight hair. Then lastly she went on a job interview…to make it short they chose the one with the curly hair. I had an issue with the other two experiments though. I mean each culture has there own ideals of beauty. what they should have done was put people of different races and men of different races  in a room and have them judge. Because in the latin american community, curly hair is excepted as beauty, in the african american community that choice can vary. In the asian commmunity im guessing straight hair would be preffered. I just felt that the experiment was very very lijmited. As well as the school of kids. A class filled withall white children, though there is nothing wrong with that, i just felt that you are not getting a full perspective of what america thinks, if you only have one race judging. So there you go curly vs straight. I hope Tyra does this on her show…she always does crazy things like this, but i believe she will execute it much better then Good Morning America did.