Also, what about Lupita N’yongo? In many African cultures her body type is considered anything but sexy.. But in America, she’s almost revered as this chocolate ethnic goddess! Oh that word.. Ethnic… Ha ha ha.. I think that the media sometimes trips itself over it’s use of descriptors of women.

This is perhaps an unrelated topic but I feel the need to add it as well. Then, the porn industry exploited, it became a little more acceptable to a greater crowd, and the women in those porns didn’t exactly look like the ones in magazines. Suddenly white women were skipping, hopping and rushing to plastic surgeons for breast enhancements in DROVES. So for sometime we had skinny (not slender) women with torpedoes, over sized breasts. Meanwhile non-white men remain very appreciative to their natural curvy women.

Now, the appreciation of natural curves of a women is becoming mainstream, and you’re mad because it’s being though of as “ethnic?” Where were you when the skinny stick figure was in the limelight? and the stick figure w/torpedoes breast were in the limelight?

Sour grapes!!

I saw a very brief clip from a documentary once, or just from the news perhaps, talking about a plastic surgeon who specializes in serving the Latino community. Real actual Latina patients in the clips talked about they felt they lacked the curves that they felt Latino men desired – this based on being part of a Latino community, interacting with Latinos, presumably watching Spanish-language television, not based entirely/primarily upon anything imposed upon them by white-created media discourses. And the doctor said that only once or twice has he ever been asked to do butt reduction surgery, confirming that there is a different conception of beauty, or different features that are preferred, among the Latino community. That is, among the Latino community themselves, and not simply in some imagined discursive conception of them in the white mind.

What sort of cultural background does your son reflect? Does your family go to a Greek church? Or celebrate Christmas in a Swedish manner? What kind of food do you cook that you consider to be your own people’s food?