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MisterX said:Honestly I think that those girls might not be too ugly by US standards. Not to be rude but in Eastern Europe where I live, those girls are (as there is a saying in my country) "so ugly that they use them to chase away demons at the monastery"(is sounds super funny in Bulgarian
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Not sure if those are average for America but I'm shocked how some of you said that you'd sleep with any of them.
I think the case in America is that the States is suffering from what I call the "immigration beauty problem", in that because beautiful women and very handsome men usually have it pretty good in their home countries, their best moves tend to be to play it safe and move to the biggest city nearby to them where they can get the most mileage out of their looks with the least risk of having to learn a new culture, give up social circle benefits, start over and maybe not do as well, etc. Conversely, plain-looking or only moderately attractive people have more upside and less downside changing countries. I think that's why, for instance, you'll find strikingly beautiful Chinese girls in Chinese cities, but the Chinese populations in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, etc. produce far less attractive women and lower average attractiveness in the attractive women they do produce than the Chinese mainland does. Same deal with white/black/Asian girls in the homelands vs. immigrant populations in the States. There are a lot more pretty white girls in France and Germany than there are in America, I find.
The other side of things is the obesity epidemic in America. In Eastern Europe, Asia, and other parts of the world, you don't award a girl any special points for being thin in your mind. Thin is just expected, and fat girls are both rare and funny novelties ("Whoa, look at that!!"). In America, you don't even realize it until you've been out of the country for a while, but you get trained to think of "chubby" as "average", and a girl just being thin awards her bonus points in your mind. You leave America for a few years and come back, and you find yourself distinctly unimpressed by the looks of your friends' girlfriends, but they're blissful because subconsciously they're giving her extra points for just not being fat.
So, effectively, you have a dating pool that's already somewhat lacking in the looks department compared to the various racial homelands, that's then further depleted with a number of women (who might otherwise be cute) lost to obesity. There are still very beautiful women in America on par with what you'll see in racial homelands, and you also don't see too many of the really heinously ugly Neanderthal-looking people that you will see in the poorer parts of almost every racial homeland too (I presume because they are too poor or uninformed / unconnected to move overseas) - it's just usually more of a mish-mash of way more plain Janes with less variation in looks. That influences a man's tastes in America, and pushes them down compared to where they'd be if he lived in, say, the Mediterranean, where his opinion on looks would be drawn from a broader pool that includes both more beautiful women from an older ancestral population, and a larger range of prospective mates, less tarnished by women tainting their looks (and the beauty standards of the men around them) with obesity.
TL;DR: there seems to be less aesthetically-gifted genetic stock in America than in seed populations in home countries, coupled with a subconscious bonus men are forced to award to women just for being thin in America because so many women are lost to obesity, that results in American men generally having somewhat lower standards than men you'll meet from most other parts of the world (or that you yourself will have as an American man after living abroad for a while and having your beauty standards reprogrammed by exposure to different populations of women).
Incidentally, this also makes travel especially awesome as an American man, because there just seem to be way more attractive women everywhere else in the world you go by comparison. Just like people go to America and are amazed at it being a land of plenty for all kinds of various things, Americans get to go abroad and realize the rest of the world is a land of plenty for beautiful women
Chase