The image of a successful boy in American colleges and universities: the chairman of the male student union, the captain of the football team, handsome in appearance, and his girlfriend is the cheerleader.
The image of a successful girl in American universities: cheerleader, young and beautiful, with many followers, and her boyfriend is the chairman of the student union.
It is not difficult to find that in American culture, the focus is on students' sports and abilities. Appearance and personality are also important factors in popularity, and academic performance is not mentioned much.
But the same problem in China is completely reversed.
On Chinese campuses, what kind of people are teachers' darlings and classmates admired? It looks like this: he or she wears glasses, is clean and looks ordinary, but has excellent grades, and ranks first in the grade...
Recall that when we were in middle and high school, there were study committees, sports committees, and life. Members. The health committee... the study committee has the highest gold content, and the one who gets the most shot, everyone will also be convinced. Because performance can be measured by scores, the first and the second can stop others' mouths. The sports committee has a good reputation at the sports meeting, and usually still has a long time to study.
As for the appearance, Chinese people disdain to mention, "Embroidered pillows are a bag of grass", that means beautiful people listen to it. Over time, there is an illusion that beautiful people have no connotations, and they rely on faces to eat. I think this concept is a kind of collective subconscious, because most people are not beautiful, but they are not willing to be more beautiful than others, so I say that beauty is a sour grape, a typical fox mentality. A beautiful person is a little bit unlucky. To a certain extent, people have higher demands on him. If he has good grades, everyone takes it for granted. If he has bad grades, especially a female, it would be ugly to say. Think about it carefully. In the past, no class had such a beautiful girl and a half who were unpopular.
There is a girl named Yue in my junior high school class. She has exquisite features, big eyes, curly hair, beautiful like a doll, and can paint, but her grades are not very good. At the beginning, everyone was polite and cold-spoken. There was no circle to accept her, and she quietly did not provoke others. But later, the situation worsened, and she became a public enemy of the whole class. Some of her classmates' behavior to her was almost comparable to that of the Cultural Revolution. The country’s inferiority was undoubtedly revealed in the matter of bullying, even in peace and harmony. Classmates will also throw paper balls at her. I watched indifferently, and felt that she did not make any mistakes. If she did not study well, she did not work hard. You can say that she is lazy but not that she has a bad character. It is not a sin for girls to dress up. Her sin is that she is too beautiful and hasn’t Learn to restrain your beauty.
If the American version of Cinderella is just an ordinary girl who wears a princess dress at the ball to win the love of the student council chairman, then the Chinese version of Cinderella on campus should look like this: a beautiful girl with her hair tied up and her face grayed out. Putting on a generous school uniform, studying hard, and finally getting accepted by classmates and favored by teachers.
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