High standards of beauty have shown who can be called beautiful and what is "right" in society. To be correct, beautiful or normal, everyone relies on the definition of a white person. This is why many people try to appear to conform to high standards, including clothing, friends, ideas, and a way of speaking to each other. In The Bluest Eye the protagonist, Pecola, drinks three liters of milk to try to become white to become beautiful in white society. Pecola tries to become white so she can be beautiful in the society where she feels she doesn't fit the standards of another individual. Even as a young girl, Pecola knows what is beautiful and what should become beautiful. This difference of who is and who is not beautiful gives the black community the idea of injustice and fraud of who is born beautiful and who is able to succeed according to the laws of society. In the song "Institutionalized" which shows how a person from a black community sees the white society where both communities feel that the other is abnormal. How money is earned, how it is spent and based on the person involved. The black community cannot join white society without changing the way it grows. This is how living standards show direct difference from each other. In society, to achieve high standards of beauty, a person must change his or her appearance or behavior: changing the identification of who a person is raised to be. If these criteria are not widespread in the person, the white society oppresses the black community within the person and she or he is unable to adapt.
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