#honestly yes looks shouldn't matter and there's been a burgeoning movement in the us to promote alternative forms of beauty

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I think a lot about beauty standards, tbh, mostly because of my family: by traditional Indian standards, I’m considered incredibly classically beautiful, but my sister is not; by modern American standards, my sister is considered drop-dead gorgeous, but I am not. And it’s nigh on impossible to describe to people that have not lived in both cultures and experienced both to fully state why the two of us are considered as such, but the reality is that we are, and it’s so so so visible in the way we are treated and interacted with in separate countries, and yet I so rarely see that dissonance discussed in diaspora literature!!