I would have to agree with Azizi that, until relatively recently, the "standard of female beauty", as defined by the print and video media, was a white woman. I have to disagree, however, that this standard required blond hair and blue eyes. As a young teen, my ideal was Annette Funichello. Sophia Loren, Elizabeth Taylor, Gina Lollobrigida, Leslie Caron and Maureen O'Hara all did quite well in the hyper-racist mid-20th century, and none of them had either blond hair or blue eyes. White, blond and blue-eyed was more the definition of the bimbo than of the true beauty.