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is most likely to be found.

"Mr. Winwood Reade," stated Darwin, "who has had ample
opportunities for observation, not only with the negroes of the
West Coast of Africa, but with those of the interior who have
never associated with Europeans, is convinced that their ideas of
beauty are, _on the whole_, the same as ours; and Dr. Rohlfs
writes to me to the same effect with respect to Bornu and the
countries inhabited by the Pullo tribes. Mr. Reade found that he
agreed with the negroes in their estimation of the beauty of the
native girls; and that their appreciation of the beauty of
European women corresponded with ours.... The Fuegians, as I have
been informed by a missionary who long resided with them,
considered European women as extremely beautiful ... I should add
that a most experienced observer, Captain [Sir R.] Burton,
believes that a woman whom we consider beautiful is admired
throughout the world." (Darwin, _Descent of Man_, Chapter XIX.)

Mantegazza quotes a conversation between a South American chief
and an Argentine who had asked him which he preferred, the women
of his own people or Christian women; the chief replied that he
admired Christian women most, and when asked the reason said that
they were whiter and taller, had finer hair and smoother skin.
(Mantegazza, _Fisiologia della Donna_, Appendix to Cap. VIII.)

Nordenskjoeld, as quoted by Ploss and Bartels, states that the
Eskimo regard their own type as more ugly than that produced by
crossing with white persons, and, according to Kropf, the Nosa
Kaffers admire and seek the fairer half-castes in preference to
their own women of pure race (Ploss and Bartels, _Das Weib_,
seventh edition, bd. 1, p. 78). There is a widespread admiration
for fairness, it may be added, among dark peoples. Fair men are
admired by the Papuans at Torres Straits (_Reports of the
Cambridge Anthropological Expedition_, vol. v, p. 327). The
common use of powder among the women of dark-skinned peoples
bears witness to the existence of the same ideal.

Stratz, in his books _Die Schoenheit des Weiblichen Koerpers_ and
_Die Rassenschoenheit des Weibes_, argues that the ideal of beauty
is fundamentally the same throughout the world, and that the
finest persons among the lower races admire and struggle to
attain the type which is found c