> "how do you know?" Maybe he doesn't. If I tell you a story about my culture I don't necessarily imply to know about everyone else's, too. For example I've go

> "how do you know?" Maybe he doesn't. If I tell you a story about my culture I don't necessarily imply to know about everyone else's, too. For example I've got no clue how whitening plays a role in much of the world as a beauty standard, but I know how it plays a role where I'm from. And indeed standards may not be the same. For example in much of Asia it's often a beauty standard to have the lightest skin colour possible, for light-skinned people. While this exists in the west for dark skinned people, light skinned people generally have the opposite and getting a tanned skin is considered better than a pale one. How that works for teeth I don't know, although I'd imagine in most cities white teeth as a beauty standard are probably fairly common but it's just an assumption.