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I have the pleasure of bringing you the first and only issu of “Crio´s World”, A magazine created with the only purpose of having a good grade in english I, this magazine is filled with content that i found really interesting , and attractive .almost all the content is from internet blogs and pages . On this number i would like to give to you a variety of topics that i can tell might not be found interesting and deep for most people , (i wouldn´t have done this magaziene if it weren´t a homework) . Any way i hope you enjoy the magazine , learn a lot of new things , and get distract with it , i would like you to have a good time Reading . Alexa casanova XOXOX
OTAKU YAOI Breakdown
Western vs Chinese Beauty Standards Western girls love to be tanned, Asian girls prefer white skin. We all know that Chinese girls have specific ideals of female beauty, but do foreigners share these ideals? Let’s explore the beauty standards in China and in the West and see to what extent they’re different. #1 Chinese beauty standards: Big eyesToday, the Chinese think that girls with 大眼睛 dà yǎnjīng big eyes are the most beautiful, even more so if their eyes have a 双眼皮 shuāng yǎnpí double-fold eyelid. These modern Chinese beauty standards reveal a certain fascination with the West, with more and more Chinese girls resorting to cosmetic surgery to create those double-fold eyelids. But do foreigners see the same features in Chinese girls? On the contrary, most foreigners seem to prefer Chinese girls with slanted, narrow eyes and eyebrows, In China, 细长眼睛 xì cháng yǎnjing slim eyes with 单眼皮 dān yǎn pí single-fold eyelids are seen as not beautiful at all, so it seems that when it comes to eye-shapes, Western and Chinese beauty standards don’t see eye to eye.
This girl on the left, 吕燕 Lǚ yàn, is a 模特 mótè top model, who’s extremely famous in China. She’s often considered the most beautiful and popular Chinese model by foreigners. 吕燕 Lǚ yàn. Lots of westerners view her as a super beauty, maybe because of her typical 东方古典美 dōngfāng gǚdiǎn mě oriental looks. She looks exotic, and exotism often appeals, as it’s new and different. However, the Chinese tend to think that she is kind of “ugly” and “strange”, especially because of her long and narrow eyes , her big lips and very large face. Her face is quite singular and unique and as such she doesn’t quite fit with the traditional Chinese beauty standards. In the eyes of the Chinese society, the girl on the right in the picture is prettier, as her big eyes, are definitely the number one thing every Chinese girl wants.
#2 Chinese Beauty Standards: Some Chinese beauty standards are inspired by Western looks, but others definitely remain typically Oriental. 皮肤白皙 pífūbáixī white skin is one of them and is a must have in China. You’ll never see a girl buying spray tan in China, or voluntarily tanning herself in the sun unless she’s spent quite a lot of time in the West. On the contrary, Chinese girls try to protect their skin from the sun as much as possible! If you’ve been to China, you undoubtedly must have noticed how they wisely use umbrellas, jackets and sunscreen to shield their skin from the sun.Having a white skin is an old Chinese beauty standard that stems from Ancient Chinese traditions. In ancient China, only the rich people had a white skin because they did not have to work in the fields like the peasants did. Their creamy, unblemished, white skin was proof they were of a different class. That’s why Chinese girls still nowadays want a white and smooth skin just like jade: to not be taken for a poor peasant. The Chinese girls’ obsession for white skin is such that the make-up industry sells in China products that are different from the Western world, where tanning is an obsession. In China, you’ll easily find face a moisturizer or with whitener agents in it and tons of beauty products that whiten your skin. In fact, finding one without may be harder to find.
the Chinese the first time they come to a Western country.
Unlike Chinese girls, Western girls think that being tanned is a beauty standard. Being tanned used to mean you couldn’t afford to go on vacation and spend time in the sun, because you were rich. Nowadays, Western girls often feel prettier tanned, and some feel it makes them look slimmer. A very white skin is often considered sign of poor health, something that might surprise
孙俪 Sūnlì, on the left, is a Chinese actress. She’s considered as the Queen of television by the Chinese. This beautiful woman is barely known by the foreigners, but I’m pretty sure all Westerns would agree on her beauty. As you can see, 孙俪 Sūnlì is the perfect representation of the white skin beauty standard, unlike the young lady on the right of the picture. Sūnlì’s skin is as white as the snow and Chinese girls fancy her so much for that. The white skin ideal can certainly be the weirdest Chinese beauty standard for westerners as they prefer being tanned than as pale as white jade. Let’s move on the next beauty ideal every Chinese girl wants to have: the right face shape accor-
#3 Chinese beauty standards: In Chinese, interestingly enough, there are lots of words to describe the 脸型 liǎnxín shape of a face, a lot more than the traditional square, oval, round and triangle face shapes in the West. If anything, that’s an indication of how seriously the Chinese take face shapes. Two specific shapes are at the top of beauty ideals:
瓜子脸 guāzǐliǎn melon seed face 鹅蛋脸 é’dànliǎn goose egg face
What a yummy description for face shapes! If they don’t seem very clear for you, just imagine a face that has the same shape as a melon seed or a goose egg. See? The face must have a very thin chin and jawline, shaped like a V. Not everyone is born with a melon seed face or a goose egg face and nowadays, many girls even go through cosmetic surgery to change the shape of their face. The worst face shape a Chinese girl can have according to Chinese beauty standards, is a 国字脸 guózìliǎn square face. A square face is considered very manly. Generally, Chinese girls want to have an oval face instead of a prominent jawline, as its viewed as more feminine, delicate and cute As for westerners, their ideal face shape is kind of different. Even if the oval-shaped face is very popular, according to a survey, the most attractive face for a girl is…. the square face! You didn’t see that coming, am I wrong? The square face is sometimes considered the most attractive since the wide jawline enhances the look and the smile. So square faces and oval faces, here’s your moment of glory!
I bet you guys know this beautiful Chinese woman on the left, 巩俐 Gong Li, the famous Chinese actress which was also awarded the “World’s most beautiful Oriental woman” title. She’s had a great impact as a Chinese actress in the movie industry. Gong Li is also the first Chinese actress to win an award in the Venice Film Festival as well as the first Chinese ambassador of the French cosme-
#4 Chinese beauty standards: Being |zh zh=”苗条” py=”miáotiáo” en=”slim”] or 瘦 shòu thin is something that most of the Chinese girls want. Girls will, actually, be judged pretty or not according to their weight and figure as it is part of Chinese beauty standards.Lots of girls barely eat things in order to lose weight and be in shape. .The online fads of comparing your waist to a A4 sheet of paper, or of seeing if you were able to wrap your hands around your waist attest to how being slim can be an obsession in China. It’s incredible! In the Western world, we also tend to like people that are slim. But curvy women are also part of the standards, depending on where the curves are. Bosoms and behinds have to be plump, but the waist must be very thin. The ideal body for some westerners, unfortunately, remains Barbie’s, the famous doll, despite its unrealistic proportions. I’m not exaggerating when I say that 范冰冰 Fan Bingbing is the most popular Chinese actress now. She’s a real fashion icon in China. Both westerners and Chinese agree on her beauty. Her body shape is very slim and her features are very delicate and thin. Fan Bingbing is very famous in the cinema industry as she acted in many popular movies such as the blockbuster X-men: Days of Future Past (2014) .Ninchanese Blog
COLOR PSYCHOLOGY
by Kendra Cherry
Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions. - Pablo Picasso Do you feel anxious in a yellow room? Does the color blue make you feel calm and relaxed? Artists and interior designers have long understood how color can dramatically affect moods, feelings, and emotions. It is a powerful communication tool and can be used to signal action, influence mood, and cause physiological reactions. Certain colors have been associated with increased blood pressure, increased metabolism, and eyestrain. "Given the prevalence of color, one would expect color psychology to be a well-developed area," note researchers Andrew Elliot and Markus Maier. "Surprisingly, little theoretical or empirical work has been conducted to date on color's influence on psychological functioning, and the work that has been done has been driven mostly by practical concerns, not scientific rigor." Despite the general lack of research in this area, the concept of color psychology has become a hot topic in marketing, art, design, and other areas. Much of the evidence in this emerging area is anecdotal at best, but researchers and experts have made a few important discoveries and observations about the psychology of color and the effect it has on moods, feelings, and behaviors. Of course, your feelings about color are often deeply personal and rooted in your own experience or culture. For example, while the color white is used in many Western countries to represent purity and innocence, it is seen as a symbol of mourning in many Eastern countries. Why is color such a powerful force in our lives? What effects can it have on our bodies and minds? Continue reading to further explore the history of color including how it's used, the effects it may have, and some of the most recent research on color psychology. The Psychological Effects of Color While perceptions of color are somewhat subjective, there are some color effects that have universal meaning. Colors in the red area of the color spectrum are known as warm colors and include red, orange and yellow. These warm colors evoke emotions ranging from feelings of warmth and comfort to feelings of anger and hostility. Colors on the blue side of the spectrum are known as cool colors and include blue, purple and green. These colors are often described as calm, but can also call to mind feelings of sadness or indifference.
RED. Physical Positive: Physical courage, strength, warmth, energy, basic survival, 'fight or flight', stimulation, masculinity, excitement. Negative: Defiance, aggression, visual impact, strain. Being the longest wavelength, red is a powerful colour. Although not technically the most visible, it has the property of appearing to be nearer than it is and therefore it grabs our attention first. Hence its effectiveness in traffic lights the world over. Its effect is physical; it stimulates us and raises the pulse rate, giving the impression that time is passing faster than it is. It relates to the masculine principle and can activate the "fight or flight" instinct. Red is strong, and very basic. Pure red is the simplest colour, with no subtlety. It is stimulating and lively, very friendly. At the same time, it can be perceived as demanding and aggressive.
BLUE. Intellectual. Positive: Intelligence, communication, trust, efficiency, serenity, duty, logic, coolness, reflection, calm. Negative: Coldness, aloofness, lack of emotion, unfriendliness. Blue is the colour of the mind and is essentially soothing; it affects us mentally, rather than the physical reaction we have to red. Strong blues will stimulate clear thought and lighter, soft blues will calm the mind and aid concentration. Consequently it is serene and mentally calming. It is the colour of clear communication. Blue objects do not appear to be as close to us as red ones. Time and again in research, blue is the world's favourite colour. However, it can be perceived as cold, unemotional and unfriendly. YELLOW. Emotional Positive: Optimism, confidence, self-esteem, extraversion, emotional strength, friendliness, creativity. Negative: Irrationality, fear, emotional fragility, depression, anxiety, suicide. The yellow wavelength is relatively long and essentially stimulating. In this case the stimulus is emotional, therefore yellow is the strongest colour, psychologically. The right yellow will lift our spirits and our self-esteem; it is the colour of confidence and optimism. Too much of it, or the wrong tone in relation to the other tones in a colour scheme, can cause self-esteem to plummet, giving rise to fear and anxiety. Our "yellow streak" can surface.
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Everyone meet DaRose; she's a 19-year
-old girl who goes by KotaKoti and looks a lot like a Barbie doll‌ KotaKoti's incredible resemblance to Barbie has made her very popular in countries like Japan and China, where she has been featured on several news networks. Considered a cosplayer by a lot of her fans, the 19-yearold says she dresses like this pretty much all the time and she doesn't mind it when people look at her
#2 Venus Palermo
At 15, Venus Palermo has grown into her doll obsession rather than out of it. Under the screen name Venus Angelic,
the London-based teenager posts beauty tutorials on YouTube for fans who want to look like her. But that's not why she's the latest viral video star. It's because she looks like a living doll.
Chinese high school student Wang Jiayun has become famous on the Korean internet for looking like an inflatable doll. Wang Jiayun is 164 cm tall and weighs 42 kg. Born in Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, she currently resides in Shenzhen of the Guangdong province, China. On the 16th and 17th of this month, her name ranked amongst the top search queries on various Korean websites.
Pokemon go fever Pokemon Go is a free-to-play location-based augmented reality mobile game developed by Japanese-company Niantic, that was first released on July 6, 2016. The game is an augmented reality reboot to the Nintendo game ‘Pokemon’, which was created by Satoshi Tajir in 1995. Much to the disappointment of gamers in India, the game has not been officially released in the country. Nevertheless, many are downloading the app through different platforms and there is no dearth to players hitched to Pokemon in Kerala. But, you might wonder what is the big deal about the game and how to play it? Once you’ve downloaded and installed the game, you are ready to play. The game will access your phone’s camera and you have to move from one place to the other to meet your targets. Firstly, you’ll get a brief introduction by the dreamy Professor Willow. She walk you through how to catch your choice of the three starter Pokemons. After that though, the game pretty much leaves you on your own, aside from a small tips section that mostly explains basic map icons. But there three basic parts to Pokemon Go: catching Pokemon, visiting pokestops, and gym battles. “The game is very addictive. Once you begin, you won’t feel like stopping. Capturing the pocket monsters becomes your goal,” says Amit Menon, a college student. People have criticised the game for invading into the privacy of others and have raised security issues as the game simulates its field from real life surroundings. “Imagine someone pointing their mobile phone at you! It feels as if they are clicking your picture and that too without permission. It gives me the creeps,” says Anita George, a housewife. “I nearly escaped being beaten up at a bank,” says Mrigank Nair. “I had gone to the bank to deposit some cash. While waiting in the queue I began playing Pokemon Go. To capture the pocket monster I had to hold my phone up and slide the poke balls on the screen at the pocket monster. When I released the ball the phone pinged and this attracted the attention of the cashier who thought that I was clicking her photo on the sly. She raised her voice and people gathered around me. I escaped being thrashed by showing them the screen shot of the game,” sighs Mrigank. There are also people who support the game as it finally gets the kids out of the couch and onto the streets, which they think will help them get some exercise. The new indian express
Otaku
That approach, coupled with historical perspective, reveals a rich subculture — and one with a complex relationship with the Japanese mainstream. A cover story in Wired’s premiere issue (1993!) described the otaku as "Japan's socially inept but often brilliant technological shutins," a bit of conventional wisdom that lives on both abroad and in the country itself. It’s no coincidence the Wired story echoes much of the overheated early-1990s fears about hackers, but otaku culture had one singular event that never afflicted hacker culture: a serial killer (excepting, of course, Matthew Lillard's star-making turn as "Cereal Killer" in Hackers (1995). In 1989, Japanese police apprehended 27-year-old Tsutomu Miyazaki after he’d attempted to molest a schoolgirl. Searching his home, they found evidence he’d murdered four young girls. They also found a collection of 5,763 videotapes, many of them anime and slasher films. Subsequent critics have asked whether authorities exaggerated Miyazaki’s otaku-ness to help secure a conviction; the press, meanwhile, dubbed him "The Otaku Killer." As Galbraith explains, the figure of Miyazaki still haunts the public perception of otaku. Debate in Japan had already focused on the supposedly reclusive, self-absorbed subculture as a growing problem. The fans were often portrayed as anti-social, withdrawing from society and surrounded themselves with fantasies. For many Japanese, otaku meant an increasing number of sullen youth who’d voluntarily taken leave of reality.
Patrick Galbraith wants you to know that otaku isn’t just Japanese for "nerd." The Alaskaborn ethnographer and journalist has spent over a decade studying the subculture, from cosplayers to collectors, "rotten girls" to bishojo-loving boys. On his way to a Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo — he’s now working on second doctorate, this time in cultural anthropology at Duke University — he published two books, The Otaku Encyclopedia and Tokyo Realtime: Akihabara. His latest book is Otaku Spaces, a collaboration with photographer Androniki Christodoulou. The book offers 20 portraits of self-declared otaku, paired with incisive and revealing interviews. But why study otaku at all? It’s a question even fellow academics have asked Galbraith. Older scholars, who earned their credentials in other, more conventional fields before theorizing about the subculture, recommended he do the same. (One suggested economic history as a more viable option.) But he believes not only is the massive subculture worth studying, but what academic attention it has received has been too detached, too eager to broadly theorize without first understanding actual otaku. Hence his emphasis on interviews. "I think there are a lot of political implications to just hearing people out," he says, "Talking to them, bringing people back to the center of discussion rather than marginalizing them, which has been the way to do it for the
Miyazaki’s crimes only exacerbated that negative perception. (Wired wrote, "The police believe the Tsutomu Miyazaki case was an exception, not an omen for the future," reassuring particularly skittish readers.) Galbraith says Japanese media persistently associated Miyazaki with otaku; the image of his room — unoccupied and windowless, with videotapes stacked to the ceiling around a small, rumpled bed — became the dominant impression of an entire subculture. Commentators suggested in that room, with so many fictional worlds within easy reach, Miyazaki could not longer distinguish between fantasy and reality. The outcome of his trial hinged on the question of his sanity, with the court concluding he understood the severity and consequence of his crime and sentencing him to death. He was executed in 2008.
"I wonder if people would accept in the US, after a mass murder, anyone saying, ‘Oh, I know why he did this: because he’s a comic book fan,’" Galbraith says, before noting that Seduction of the Innocent, a 1954 book by psychiatrist Fredric Wertham, claimed that then-popular "crime comics" promoted juvenile delinquency. Wertham’s claims sparked a Congressional investigation; the resulting political pressure led to the creation of the Comics Code Authority, largely responsible for the subsequent decades-long dominance of superhero comics. Arguably, the United States comics scene still doesn’t
Perhaps because of this larger cultural role, the definition and understanding of otaku has long been contentious. Galbraith describes a longrunning power politics surrounding the subculture. "The ‘bad’ otaku shuts off from society, in a room with the objects of consumption, not participating in ‘normal’ forms of social formation," he says. Miyazaki embodied this stereotype, and his prominence strengthened it. "For example," Galbraith says, "today we think of otaku as male, but before 1989, they were often described as both men and women who behaved in ways the older fans or outsiders found unacceptable." Already, before the killings, otaku men were often portrayed Today’s otaku have it better. The label has lost some of its sting; concurrently, more sites of "otaku-ness" have sprung up. Tokyo’s Akihabara has become probably the most recognizable otaku town in the world. Local authorities have embraced that identity, holding frequent festivals and welcoming fans. Increased public recognition has also helped broaden the culture; no longer confined to the image of an person-less room overstuffed with pop-culture flotsam, otaku can take on more positive meanings. It’s not just the obsessive, withdrawn loner — though that picture may never completely dissipate — now it can be the ardent, passionate expert. "It’s a slippery term, as a lot of my interviews demonstrate," Galbraith says, "A lot of people mobilize that term, with all of its historical baggage, but also all of its present meanings. I think because otaku is such a loaded and powerful word, it’s useful to talk through the possible ways you can make the label significant in your life. Whether good or bad." Galbraith has taken on the label for himself: since discovering VHS copies of Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind and Bubblegum Crisis as a youngster in Alaska, he’s become a self-proclaimed otaku. He’s cosplayed as Super Saiyan Goku from Dragon Ball Z and led audio tours of Akihabara, not just as a scholar, but as a participant. That gives him a different perspective than some of his more theoretically minded colleagues. And it goes handin-hand with a strong sense of responsibility toward his subjects. With Otaku Spaces, he consciously set out to counter the myth of Miyazaki, the madman alone in his room. "It's too much of a temptation to fall back on these stereotypes and tropes," he says, "without someone there to check you on it." His check is the people he talks with, often spending hours on a single interview. As his work reveals, they can speak candidly and with remarkable self-awareness about being otaku — whatever that means to them. Far from Miyazaki's empty room, they occupy spaces of life, surrounded by the things they love and eager to tell their own stories.
Yǎoi: History, Appeǎl, ǎnd Misconceptions
by Chris Kincǎid
Yaoi, also known as Boy’s Love or 801, is an offshoot of shojo manga. Shojo is categorized by the primary audience: women and girls. Yaoi is focused on male homosexual relationships; however, it isn’t targeted toward a homosexual audience. That type of manga is called bara. Yaoi is different from more traditional shojo storylines since it is focused on boys seeking love with each other as opposed to a girl seeking that of a boy. Yaoi stories deal with sexuality and violent emotions such as strong loneliness. Yaoi first appeared in the 1970s and sharply contrasted from the typical shojo focus on emotions and personal development. Yaoi is an acronym, by the way. It stands for: yama nashi, ochi nashi, imi nashi (no climax, no point, and no meaning). The acronym sounds sexual but actually refers to the story structures used in the subgenre. Osamu Tezuka was said to be the first to use the phrase to describe poor quality manga. Yaoi stories are typically written by women for women and girls. The sub-genre was thought to have started as fan fiction. Yaoi caused a lot of controversy when it first appeared in the male dominated manga industry. Both the themes and the fact women were the authors shook many traditional mangaka.Yaoi is characterized by 2 specific character roles: seme and uke. Seme refers to “top” or “attacker.” Uke refers to “bottom” or receiver. While they do have sexual connotations (much like the American slang “hitter” and “catcher”), they are derived from formal martial art forms. Interestingly, yaoi characters typically do not identify as homosexual. They are more neutrally in love with a particular character as opposed to being a certain sexual orientation. Male characters also help avoid misogyny, female stereotypes, and sometimes abusive treatment of female characters in sexual scenes.It it thought that yaoi allows girls to safely explore different sexual identities free from stereotypes and societal norms. The androgynous designs of the characters can let a reader see the characters as both male, male and female, or even both female. Also, the characters tend to relate to each other as equals more than a traditional male/female relationship. I found it interesting how many readers do not like uke who are too feminine; they too easily fall into traditional male/female norms when they act too girly. Not all yaoi features explicit sex. Manga that features such are called hentai yaoi. Also, yaoi isn’t considered realistic by the homosexual male community. It is wrong to say yaoi’s appeal is solely based on voyeuristic sex. Yaoi has too many variations and stories to broadly brush the sub-genre in such a way. Until the 1980s, yaoi was often confused with shonen-ai sub-genre. Yaoi remained a niche sub-genre until 2006 when the market began grossing around 12 billion yen a year. The first official Boy’s Love manga translation appeared in the US in 2003. Since then, yaoi has grown in popularity with American women and girls.
Lame Breakdown by Alexa casanova
I am going to write about human doll’s popularity in back 2013 and 2014 , even that is not a trending topic Anymore , i think that i must write about Dakota’s fraud having in mind that all the proclime or selfdesignated human dolls use photoshot , it cought my atenttion that Dakota was so popular , popular enough to de flight to japan by nhk tv just because many people wanted her , and were impresed by her “beauty ”, and her interview in NHKtv was really shooking , cuse she did not look doll alike at all , like magibon the former e-celeb ,but after Dakota´s tv aparence it surpise me that she got a contract with CAMCAM and etude house after all her lies . And that she has kept her popularity even being a xonofobic
Like the music in horror movies , the popularity of human dolls is based in instinct , the music in horror movies resemble the cry of a baby , the human dolls resemble a baby having a tiny sheen and nose , really big eyes , wide forhead , they wouldn´t be so popular they didn´t look like babys I mus´t say that is because of that , because i am not shure , i ougth research more , and shall not writte about something that cerntanly i don´t know