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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mmadsen" data-source="post: 1607014" data-attributes="member: 1645">A few things we know about beauty: <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">People in the same culture strongly agree about who is beautiful and who is not.  (This is true even of primitive cultures without modern mass media.)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Age and gender of the observer have little affect on how the observer judges beauty.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Across cultures, people find the following traits attractive in women: big eyes, small mouth, high cheekbones, full lips, larger hips than waist, etc.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">People find other people of similar appearance more attractive -- but they can easily tell who is more attractive within another group; e.g., South American tribesmen can tell which white American women are more attractive by white American standards.</li> </ul>Thus, a Masai tribeswoman will declare a typical Masai woman more attractive than a typical Japanese woman, but she'll recognize that the beautiful Japanese woman (as defined by other Japanese) is more attractive than the ugly Japanese woman.We can model this with a single Attractiveness stat and a simple (universal) matrix of which cultures are similar to which others.  As a modern American, I might be turned off by neck rings and lip plugs, but I can still tell who's "hot" (or not) in the African tribe.</blockquote>