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Why immigration can shatter beauty confidence

I immigrated from Ethiopia and American beauty standards make me feel like my features are wrong even though I was considered beautiful back home.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Cultural displacement creates beauty standard whiplash and challenges fundamental self-perception.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Desirability and beauty standards across cultures?”

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