Articles on Identity and Intercultural Communication.

Articles on Identity and Intercultural Communication. Regina E. Spellers: "Happy to be Nappy! Embracing an Afrocentric Aesthetic for Beauty." Noting that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, the author goes in to state her aim as to ask "how one takes an Afrocentric world view and moves from valuing mainstream standards of beauty to embracing a concept of beauty that evolves from one's personal ideology." (Page 52). The author goes on to elaborate on …

…beauty that have been established, both consciously and unconsciously, over generations. My own experience suggests that such conditioning can be subtle, so subtle that one may not be aware of it immediately, or until one contacts others, from other cultural perspectives. The reason for this is that people from other and diverse backgrounds can present and suggest alternative ways of viewing even seemingly simple subjects. The value of human diversity is apparent, here as elsewhere.