In The article " A tale of corruption" Arthur Crisp discusses
how a group of colleagues presented the information they
found after doing research to find the impact western
television had on Fijian girls; their finding supported that
such exposure lead to eating disorders and body
dissatisfaction. They repeated this experiment three years
later to find an increase in the number of girls with an eating
disorder. 3/4 of the population said that they felt too fat, and
wished to lose weight.When asked why they felt this way
they replied with " Our size might get in the way of us
receiving out dream jobs, the idea employee is like the thin
western women on TV." Western television programs,
including their advertising elements, may now also have
catered for this educational need, on what is and is not
acceptable when trying to get to that magic size of 00,in
Fiji.These Fijian schoolgirls no longer have the experience of
feeling at home in their bodies because, they are always
trying to be like all of the super thin women they see all over
TV. Television has not only corrupted the values of women in
the U.S but also in Fiji, all of the evidence gathered from
these experiments leads these colleagues to believe that the
connection between media and the way females view their
bodies is undeniably strong. Now, there are websites that
promote "pro-ana" that teach young girls how to adopt tactics
that increase their ability to starve themselves in order to
please society by being, what they consider beautiful,
excessively thin.
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