Part 1-- Elaine (Yuyao) Wang-- American Dream, an inhuman control
From my perspective, the American Dream💭 uses the media to control people's minds🙅, by defining people's perception of happiness as material superficially😟. However, the regulation is unnecessary and a bit inhumane because it deprives people’s right to pursue the happiness they really want, not just the pursuit of material.🤑💰🤑💰
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The models💃 in the advertisements for cosmetics💄 and clothes👗 are always slim and thin. When I saw them on the billboard or TV, I always become harsh and inferior😿 to my own body. Since I went to junior high school, I went on a crazy diet🥗 for losing weight. However, my method to lose weight did not help me be slender as I wanted but made my physical fitness even worse.💢💢💢😨😨😨
Thinking about it now😟, the advertisement ordered social standards for beauty to be slim and sexy👎👎👎, which affect me deeply to put pressure on myself and make me feel inferior💦💦. There is actually no standard of beauty, and it is diverse💪. The media piece controls me to chase this dream of being slim, which is superficial and one-sided.👊👊👊
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Just like the idealist American Dream which uses media as propagandas to regulate the public perspective of happiness, in October 2015, Victoria's Secret used advertisements to try to manipulate people's standards of beauty. It posted an advertisement on Facebook, with the model wearing Victoria's Secret "Cheeky" series of underwear with her back to the camera to show her sexy body 😳.
However!!!!!
People found the traces of the model's thighs and buttocks have been processed with graphics software in order to make the model's figure look more “perfect💥” 😡.
DEFECTIVE❎ PERFECT✅
This event pushed Victoria’s Secret to the vortex🌀 of public opinion that guides the wrong aesthetic ideas of people just like the way that the American Dream uses to regulate people’s standard of happiness😱😱😱. It is criticized as using women's longing for a beautiful body to sell the desire of "being sexy" to target consumer groups👿. With its "Angel👼", Victoria’s Secret has created a perfect physical image in the minds of men and women, making its products instantly attractive💣💢💣💢💣.
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👉The American Dream used media to show happiness, and manipulated people ’s standards of it. The same is true of underwear advertisements. They all let people be controlled and lost the right to pursue their own happiness...😞💩
👉I think the American Dream is presented in an idealistic way because happiness is hard to define👍👍. It is more like a spontaneous feeling from people's hearts🧡 than being framed by the material💲. Except for cars and house, everyone should have a different idea of happiness but defining it forcibly sometimes even causes damage to this society !❗!❗! Just like me, influenced by advertisements that control the standard of beauty, blindly pursuing goals that are not suitable for me will hurt both my body and mind😢. After all, How can a dream which stipulates personal wishes be equal and liberal?
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