Do Americans and Europeans View Aging Differently?
By Alison Caporimo, Allure magazine
Botticelli's Venus may not have aged a day since 1486, but most European women do get wrinkles and fine lines like the rest of us. However, they still may not be as youth-obsessed as their American counterparts.
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Merz Aesthetics, an international medical aesthetics company, recently conducted the "Face Value" Beauty Survey among over 2,900 women from Italy, France, Spain, Russia and the United Kingdom. They discovered that a majority of European women (70%) claim that they feel more confident as they age. The women also said that they don't mind looking their own age, as long as they don't look any older (though they didn't say they wished to look younger, either).
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And what about American women? When Allure conducted the 2010 American Beauty Survey, polling 2,000 men and women from across the country, we found a slightly different answer. 93 percent of US women said that the pressure to look young today is greater than it's ever been. And even though European women seem more lassez-faire about aging than American women, both groups still appear pretty cool with plastic surgery (78% of European women think it's acceptable; facelifts in the U.S. increased a whopping 35 percent in 2010).
Do you think that the European idea of anti-aging is much different than the American one? Or are all women across the globe essentially the same?
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