The Blame Game
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published 19/11/2007
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SummaryIn modern times, and namely in Western culture, identity has become a wholly introverted principle. People strive to define themselves solely as individuals; identity is thought of as exclusively self-contained. American culture, for example, celebrates above all else the “individual;” he (or she) who stands out from the masses is reputed. It is within this celebration of “original identity,” however, where one of American culture’s deepest ironies lies. While on the surface a person’s autonomy may seem salient, if he or she does not conform to certain pre-disposed social constraints, he or she may be in danger of being viewed by others (and by him/herself) as “valueless.” Nowhere is this more prevalent than in the eating disorders of Americans. Disorders such as Anorexia and Bulimia Nervosa affect millions, and kill thousands of Americans every year; yet they are kept in the shadows of the culture’s collective consciousness.
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- These potentially-fatal disorders are largely the byproducts of a society's quest for shared 'individual' identities.
- On the most basic level, Anorexia Nervosa involves a person refusing to maintain his/her normal body weight for age and height.
- The [relatively] recent insurgence of eating disorders like Anorexia and Bulimia Nervosa is, on the most base level, connected to the way our culture eats.
- It is hard to tell from modern American culture, but thin was not always 'in.?
- This, in turn, brings about the 'social' explanation of eating disorders such as Anorexia and Bulimia Nervosa.
- The power the media has to form society's concepts of the 'ideal' anything is virtually undeniable.
- The quest for a biological explanation for eating disorders is a relatively new one; scientists are only recently thinking of eating disorders as actual 'diseases.?
- Eating disorders such as Anorexia and Bulimia Nervosa have silently killed thousands of Americans every year for decades.
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