mika (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} formusic) wrote,@ 2009-02-23 13:16:00 |
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The condition of one's body can be a status symbol. In times past, when workers did physical labor outdoors under the sun and often had little food, being pale and fat was a status symbol, indicating wealth and prosperity (through having enough food and not having to do manual labor). Now that workers usually do less-physical work indoors and find little time for exercise, being tanned and thin is often a status symbol in Western culture.
