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Your Body: Your Image: Episode 2: Global Body

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Global Body

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Episode 2: Global Body

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A look at the global beauty industry, cultural diversity and westernisation in fashion.

Five films looking at body image. This episode looks at the global beauty industry, cultural diversity and the growing trend of westernisation in fashion.

This episode celebrates human global diversity and illustrates the vastly different concepts of fashion and beauty that have traditionally existed throughout the world.

There is a look the growing trend of westernisation that is sweeping the globe - a trend driven by the multimillion-pound fashion and beauty industry which pushes people from all nationalities towards an impossibly perfect, western body image ideal. This is having a negative impact on cultural identity.

Body image campaigner Stephanie Heart reveals that no matter how we look, people around the globe are beginning to feel dissatisfied with their bodies and are spending their hard-earned cash to change their looks. Can this be right?

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Busting body image myths and investigating the commercialisation of body image ideals.

A specially commissioned series of films for KS3 that busts body image myths and investigates the commercialisation of body image ideals, promoting debate in the classroom

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