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I was at a Panda Express yesterday and it occured to me that, at everyone one of those I've ever been to, for years and years, the staff has been 100% Asian.
This is not a Mom & Pop operation that is hiring Asians as a support to that community. This is a mega-corporation that has decided to maintain a theme of Chinese food served exclusively by those who can pass for Chinese. They are using casting methods in their hiring practices, and they have clearly decided - rightly or wrongly - that their customers want their chow mein dished out by people who fit the chow mein theme.
I will never be hired by Panda Express. Woe is me.
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Creepy as Eliza's Twilight Zone episode is, I wouldn't mind at all if I could choose from one of 73 body types, and if everyone else did the same. (Faces are a different story, but lemme choose a body type and I'd be pretty happy about it).
Furthermore, even though my personal beauty standards go beyond the corporate common denominator standard - - - I have never had a problem finding those C.D. standard beauties to be beautiful. Even when Disneyland was populated by Nazi youth, I rarely found any of those Aryan brothers and sisters to be unattractive.
How can I fault Disney for going with the safest, common demonimator standards of beauty for something as common-denominator-pleasing as Disneyland? With thousands of cast members, there's bound to be an interesting range of looks no matter what beauty standards they apply. And whatever they do with the costume designs and sizes, I believe they - like many employers - will continue to hire the most beautiful, qualified people available.
Like CP, I don't put any stock in looks when interacting with friends (great post, btw, CP). But I won't deny that I react better to good looking strangers (yeah, tell me pretty girls don't have the world in their hands), and that I pretty much agree with society's standards of who's beautiful.
Sue me.
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