What Americansfind attractivecan be downright strange.

However, that’s only because they may be all you know.

In India, too, some people look to creams to lighten their natural skin tone.

Woman in tanning bed

The whiter your chompers, the better.

Statistically speaking, you have likely used a product in an attemptto whiten your teeth.

Meaning,80percent were under the care of an orthodontist in 2015.

Attractive woman with white teeth

Adults, too, now make up a quarter of all orthodontics patients throughout North America.

Not everyone places the same value on having bright white and super straight teeth.

Well, he’s not wrong.

an attractive woman smiling

Yes, we are all perpetual smilers and non-Americans find this really odd.

According toUSA Today, the corporation 24/7 Wall St. discovered that foreigners think Americans overdo it with the smiling.

Much of how we view ourselves and others can be linked back to the media.

Attractive women of all sizes

For example, if shown photos of underweight women, the women would considerthin to be the most attractive.

Well, they didn’t until they were gifted or cursed with western media.

As part ofanother study, Boothroyd observed what happened when villagers began watching our TV shows.

Attractive woman having plastic surgery

Sure enough, they started idealizing thinner bodies and some even tried to lose weight.

Gluteal augmentation aka butt lifts alone has increased by 252 percent since the new millennium.

While Americans are not the only ones surgically enhancing their appearances, we are arguably most obsessed with it.

Woman getting makeup applied

Plastic surgery may look attractive to us here in the States, but it’s pretty bizarre to outsiders.

But are we more into makeup than people in other countries?

Speaking toThe Cut, he explained the differences in the American versus Spanish approach to makeup.

Woman in hoodie

“You guys take risks,” he explained.

“In Spain it’s much quieter.”

Laura Mercier of the French eponymous cosmetic line has also noticed odd makeup trends in America.

Woman shaving her armpit

“French women are not flashy.

They must be subtle.

The message must not be, ‘I’m spending hours on my face to look beautiful.'”

Woman getting makeup appiled

To each his or her own, right?

Naturally, they heard many perspectives.

All of them wear shorts."

attractive woman with full lips

She noted that it’s shocking to see how formally we used to clothe ourselves.

This makes us jeans-and-hoodie-wearing folk the odd ones out, though they’re still attractive to us Americans.

Hair where?

attractive woman with blonde hair

At least not in the United States, that is.

As it goes, though, we’re not the only ones.

Both menandwomen shave their armpits in Colombia and Turkey.

Although with more and more countries embracing hairlessness, we may not be considered weird for very long.

For one, she’s perplexed by our obsession with getting our nails done.

Yet and still, it’s not just nails we care about doing for feel attractive.

Well, what can we say?

America the beautiful, right?

Since then in the age oflip kits big lips have arguably become even more popular.

But plump lips aren’t attractive worldwide.A 2017 studyrevealed that Japanese women have a preference for thinner lips.

Super plump lips aren’t the bee’s knees in China, either.

Instead, “balanced” lips were preferred,a 2018 studyconfirmed.

This is especially true inHollywoodand even in big business.

Of all the female chief executives at S&P 500 companies, nearly half are blonde.

While attractive in America, blonde hair isn’t universally praised, though.

In Japan, for example, natural, dark hair isoften the preference.