Idk if someone can confirm this or not, but I feel like our precolonial etipome of beauty would be a fat body. Like muscles are cool to do stuff but the status you must have to not do stuff and still be abundant with food?! Like damn that's sinexy.
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Replying to @Niyok_Nasty
I honestly think that because our ancestors lacked saturated fat in their diets in so many ways (we had no meat except fanihi really, coconut oil is the exception), and we did not lead sedentary lifestyles, there is a strong possibility that obesity wasn't a thing.
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Replying to @Lani4Pasifika @Niyok_Nasty
I could definitely be wrong. This is me spinning what I know about our ancestral diets with daily life. Diets were lots of fish, taro, lemmai, coconut, other veggies. Daily life was different for many but nobody sat around & got served, so idk how anyone could get fat you know?
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Replying to @Lani4Pasifika @Niyok_Nasty
If we had a ruling monarchy that could exploit the resources of the land and people, for SURE people would have gotten debu! Thats what happened in China back in the day, and wherever there is a monarchy that exploits resources. Fat faces and bodies were celebrated definitely.
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But your thoughts on beauty are the same ones I have. What was our definition of beauty back then, trying to look past my colonized thoughts on beauty? It's fascinating to think about!
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