WHAT CAUSES PEOPLE TO LOSE THEIR BODY POSITIVITY AND LOVING THEM-SELVES?
Plastic surgery has been a phenomenon issue recently. People claimed that South Korea is the capital of plastic surgery clinique of the world, where the surgery rate is higher compared to other countries. According to the current research, 20% of women aged 20-49 in Seoul admitted that they have gone under the knife. Plastic surgery is also to be trending topic over the worldwide, particularly through social media. It is one of factors that influence Indonesians to do the same procedure in order to change their physical appearance. Besides, other things that become hot topic nowadays is filler treatments, it also can be an alternative way to change a person’s appearance. Those facilities are offered for everyone who want to change their physical appearance so people tend to put much efforts in order to bring their physical appearance close to body standard made by society. People is eager to fulfill body standard in society because they lose body positivity or self confidence. There are some factors that make people lose their body positivity.
First, less thankful to God may be the main factor that causes people to lose body positivity to themselves. It can be shown when we look at ourselves in the mirror, we will commonly think that we have a lot of lacks from our physical appearance. We sometimes put down ourselves by thinking that we are ugly, we are fat, we are too skinny, and others. However, actually there are other things that we should be thankful for. For example, we can wake up in the morning is one of simple things to express our thankful to God.
Second, we have no sense of loving ourselves. It makes people to lose body positivity because naturally we are all humans who easily looking for the lacks not only from ourselves but also from other people. For example, we see Korean actors or Korean actress more often than we see the figure of ourselves. It comes to the perception that they are prettier or more handsome than us. Besides, we often see beautiful vlogger (video vlogger) or instafamous (a person who’s famous on the popular application, instagram) through social media because social media has became our daily food nowadays. It can bring insecurity to ourselves so we judge ourselves that we are not as beautiful as they are.
Another reason why people have a less self confidence toward their body is society do not support us to think positively toward our body, our face, or well-said our physical appearance. Basically we, as an Indonesians, live in a society that put too much attention on physical appearance so unconsciously we also concern to physical appearance. If we meet our old friends after a long time, the first thing we will do is scanning their physical appearance. We might give this mockery : “Wow you look chubby”. In the contrary, they also might say : “Wow you are more fatty since the last time i saw you”. Thus, when we go to public places, we are trying hard not to ‘look less presentable’.
Actually body standard does not exist in society. We can’t change mindset of society easily. However, things we can do is changing ourselves first by starting conversation with other topics besides physical appearance when we meet someone. We can also change ourselves step by step by leaving the ‘scanning-type’ of ourselves too much then looking for our lacks. As a result, when we had have all of mindset about body positivity, society system that are running now, slowly will stop.
Thus, this is likely my very first opinion corner. The idea that I proposed here is referenced from gitasav.
You can see the video in the link below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3Zi92Pkvj0
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