I don't think it's just Americans in particular, it's humans in particular, if not animals in particular. Beauty rules and probably always will. It doesn't make it right, but there's some instinctual thing probably related to mating that makes us value outer beauty so much.

I'm one of those who believes you have to have some basic level of attraction in order to be with someone. Liking the person's personality and other attributes is what you keeps you together. If you don't have that basic level of attraction first, I think the rest can very easily fall apart.

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