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>My pet theory is this is because tanning is a product of a life of leisure, It's the other way around. The cultural difference between Asia and especially Ame
by Barrin92 3y ago
>My pet theory is this is because tanning is a product of a life of leisure,
It's the other way around. The cultural difference between Asia and especially America is that working class and mass culture determine aesthetics in the US (and downstream in Europe). When Jeff Bezos hits the gym and poses in a truck with a cowboy hat and big arms, and Zuckerberg styles himself as a MMA fighter its because that's what reigns supreme in culture. They don't want to be seen as living life's of leisure, but as hard workers and ordinary salt of the earth people.
Paleness still is a sign of leisure and traditional "refinement", it's just that this is not an aspirational value in the West, but it still is to some extent in Asia.
- bluGill 3y agoThat depends. When most work outsade then tan is a sign of poor, the rich work inside and don't tan. When most work inside desk jobs tan is a sign of leasure
- watwut 3y agoThe actual working class in USA looks nothing like Bezos or Zuckerberg. Ordinary salt of the earth people do not look like that.
- twic 3y agoIt's not this. I know ladies who work on their tans, and they don't put faux working class outfits on over them, they dress up hard. A tan indeed signals that you have enough money and free time to swab around in the Mediterranean. I don't think a tan even is naturally associated with being working-class in Europe or North America. Factory workers don't spend a lot of time outside. That's really a meme from tropical agrarian countries.
- Nevermark 3y agoBezos and Zuck are playing all the cards of wealth. They are demonstrating (to themselves as much as others) that they can spend enormous amounts of effort and cognition on building wealth, but still have time, creative spirit, and social finesse required to do anything else, go on any adventure, hang out with anyone. Elite fitness is not a poor or overworked person's game. Neither is hanging out with subcultures, which has nothing to do with actually being in a subculture. Etc.