Being white myself, and having only lived in places where even when I was a minority I still represented certain standards of beauty and higher social status, I wouldn't dare criticizing your perception of your own racial issues. But I just find it heartbreaking that you don't find yourself and women like you beautiful. Many features I find beautiful are largely found in black women : prominent cheekbones, small nose bone, full lips, tallness, firm curves; smooth skin even with aging women. But most important is not what I think is beautiful, or what society establishes as beauty canons, but what you think is beautiful. With confidence, every one of us can find some personal beauty standard we can fit, and work towards them. You are beautiful. You just need to find how.
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