Blondes in American Society

"Do blondes have more fun?" This pop culture question verging on the cliche of mantra by Madison Avenue advertising agencies actually does imply a questioning of cultural values within the American society that deserves to be addressed by serious research. Accordingly, working from the above proposition, it will be the hypothesis of this paper that, yes, blondes do have more fun.

Key to understanding the cultural implications of the defining question of this study is the more specific delineation of the word "fun." Again, the pop cultural roots of the issue are evident in the choice of the word itself:

fun, n., 1. lively, gay play or playfulness; merriment; amusement; sport; recreation; joking.

2. a source or cause of amusement or merriment, as an amusing person or thing.

"Fun" is not a scientific term and, it should be noted, its use in the context of the famed question - "Is it true blondes have more fun?" - sprang from 1950s colloquial terminology, wherein the word "fun" was meant to convey "sexy" and "attractive" within a socially active setting. Hence, the word "fun" as used in this study's defining question is a highly subjective term directly equating attractiveness to social compatibility and fulfillment. The standards of social compatibility and fulfillment are a constantly-changing entity, reflecting as they do the ebb and flow of social change that has affected the American character. Identifying that potential danger must

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in that subcontinent (and, through cultural exportation, throughout Asia) down through the centuries - the subconscious belief that the ruling class is lighter-hued than the rest of the population. As the Aryans migrated into Asia Minor and Europe - and, later, as the Romans conquered Northern Africa - the light-dominating-dark equation persisted. This was to take on a new variation in the Middle Ages, when blackamoor Muslim conquest threatened European civilization and Arab-Africans intermingled bloodlines with the Mediterranean peoples. During that post-Roman period - with resistance led mainly by Frankish-Germanic, light-skinned/fair-haired Northerners - the impression of blondness as a ruling trait was reinforced in the pre-modern mind. As the Middle Ages progressed into the Renaissance, Enlightenment, and so forth, the ruling families increasingly came to symbolize power, health and the standard of attractiveness (often, as was the case with Louis XIV of France, "The Sun King," those symbols were adopted purposely). That the royal families of Spain, England, France and Italy all imported their spouses from Germanic kingdoms led to a simplistic, logical conclusion: that the people possessing such blonde, fair-skinned ch

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