Body hair...


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Posted by Kebo_Edan on Sunday, 25. October 2009 at 23:43 Bali Time:

In Reply to: no truth in it at all... posted by Keren on Sunday, 25. October 2009 at 20:10 Bali Time:

...has always been considered an attribute of coarse, unrefined characters. In the traditional iconography, Demons, monsters, witches, and people representing negative powers, or else simply the 'bad guys'in the wayang are portrayed as having large round eyes, big uneven teeth, and lots and lots of body hair. In fact, most of the attributes that white people naturally have. In general, Balinese find body hair to be rather ugly and not at all attractive.


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