Beauty

I watched a video about Japanese subculture, “Gothic Lolita”. Since I am Japanese, I was familiar with it at least more than other people but I didn’t know some of the stories about it. The video was shot on a bridge in Harajuku, Tokyo. Many Gothic Lolita girls are on the bridge. Gothic Lolita is the girl who wears gothic clothes or the clothes which princesses wear. What the video talked about was that the costume came from England and spread to certain group of Japanese girls. In the video, one gothic Lolita girl talked about the group of Gothic Lolita. There are two kinds of Gothic Lolitas. One usually doesn’t wear the costume but when they hang out with Gothic Lolita friends, they dress up in that way. The other girls wear it every day. We also call them “Otaku”. Otaku is the people who are crazy in something. For instance, People who are crazy in Animation are Animation Otaku. Chile also has that kind of people. They dress up like famous musicians. Boys and girls do that. They also dye their hair green or pink etc… They also paint their face. To make fun of them, other people call them “Pokemon”. America also has that kind of people who dress up differently from others. They even go to school with the costume. The aspect of beauty is changeable depending on the trend of the age. For instance, Marilyn Monroe had had big influence for fashion in America before but it is changing. Avril Lavigne has had big influence for fashion recently. The aspect of beauty is also different depending on the regions. For instance, southern people prefer country music in America so their aspect is that the musician of country music is beautiful or cool. In northern part of America, people prefer pop or rock music so their aspect is totally different from southern people. The aspect of beauty is also different depending of their age. In Japan, the length of skirt of high school students is different depending on regions. Each region has own popularity. If we dress up differently from other people of our group, they laugh at us. There are some people like Gothic Lolita in our group. They usually have depression, so they want to show themselves differently to other people. Who decide what beauty is ourselves. Media also gives us a lot of choices but the person who decides is ourselves after all. These are the aspects of beauty of my group mates and me. A man from Chile doesn’t care about appearance except for Gothic Lolita. He cares only about personality. A man from America said that it is changeable but now, he cares personality and physical appearance. He wants her to take care of him and be healthy. He wants to have a lot of in common with her. I care physical appearance as well as personality. I also want to have in common with her. People who have a lot of common can be beautiful.