Huhu...again, while surfing on the net, I remember a speech that I've prepared during my study at UiTM. My speech entitled " Beauty with Brain" was awarded as the best presentation by my lecturer and selected as example to my other friends... Well dear, let me share with you guys...
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Introduction
I. Imagine you attend an interview to become a diplomat officer for the NAM conference. The interviewer asks, “What is NAM?” and you simply answer, “It is the Non- Aligned Movement”. Full stop. Again the interviewer ask, “Yes, but what is Non- Aligned Movement?”. You startled and completely have known idea. Then the interviewer said, “Alright then, actually we want someone who beauty with brains”.
II. This is a true story of a friend of mine. She is a beautiful young lady. At that time she said that she felt embarrassed and realized that she has to be both beauty and brainy. Yet, she still got that position.
III. We tend to infer that beautiful people also tend to be smart people or vice versa as said by two sociologists Satoshi Kanagawa and Jody L. Kovar from London School of Economics.
IV. Today I would like to inform you about the Grand Unification theory of beauty with brains, woman versus man in term of intelligence and good-looks and Malaysia’s beauty with brains.
Let’s begin with the Grand Unification theory of beauty with brains.
I. The Grand Unification theory of beauty with brains flows from four assumptions that guided Satoshi Kanagawa and Jody L. Kovar as they examined data collected in dozens of scientific studies conducted over the past three decades around the world, which means their findings to apply more or less universally. Beauty may be in the eye of beholder, but researchers that there is remarkable agreement in many cultures about what beholders find appealing.
A. The first two assumptions posit that intelligence and beauty are inheritable. Those are genetics “gimmes”, that there are a lot of data showing that the kids of smart people are likely to be smart, just as the offspring of attractive people tend to be lookers, too.
B. The next assumption is that more intelligent men are more likely to attain higher social and economic status than less intelligent men. That’s seems undeniable, and there are a lot of supporting evidence that it is true.
1. For example, the study of Korea vets found that the 20 percent with the highest IQs earned twice as much as those in the bottom 20 percent and were far more likely to be engineers, doctors and teachers than to toil in a lower-wage blue-collar job.
C. Then Kanagawa and Kovar tackle the key assumption that beautiful women are more likely to marry men with higher status. Again, that seems obvious, but it also empirically true.
1. One longitudinal study of people in Oakland, California, found that attractiveness among women was the "strongest determinant of their husband's occupational status."
We already understand the theory of beauty with brains. Now let’s move on to the differences of women and men in term of intelligence and good-looks and vice versa.
II. What about smart women versus attractive men?
A. Brains are plus for a beautiful women, but they are not the main attraction, just as being handsome is a bonus for a high-status guys but not the main draw for women, according to Kanazawa.
B. In the July (2004) issue of Intelligence, the sociologists offer a theory to explain the confluence of beauty and brains. Their argument, in a nutshell: Intelligent men achieve higher status and marry beautiful women, who pass their genes on to their disproportionately attractive and smart kids, who win mates who are good-looking or brainy, and so on. Or at least that's what they put forth in the journal article, "Why Beautiful People are More Intelligent."
C. Kanazawa said that given the imperfection in assortative mating, the correlation between intelligence and beauty should be far less than perfect. Beautiful people are more likely to be intelligent, and intelligent people are more likely to be beautiful. The correlation goes both ways, but is not perfect. There are always exceptions.
Now let me introduce who are the Malaysia’s beauties with brains.
III. We do have Malaysian attractive and smart man and woman.
A. Dr. Fazley Yaakub (Ph.D in Business Management).
1. Dr. Fazley is famous local artiste and a part- time motivator.
2. He is also the chairman of Pusat Dagangan Dunia Putra (PWTC).
3. He has proved that, an artistes are also should have the intelligence and he inspired community to become more intellect.
B. Yasmin Mahmood, 40s (Managing Director of Microsoft Malaysia)
1. Yasmin Mahmood is one and only three women in Asia Pacific to head a Microsoft country organization, plus she is the first women to lead the Malaysian team.
2. Married with 10-year-old son, she said that many smart women face dilemma of how do you balance your role and how far do you want to go. Women have to evaluate themselves because the further she go; the tougher it is to balance the values of an Asian woman and commitment to work.
I. In conclusion, beauty and brains always come together. Theory regarding this issue has been developed but in Malaysia, research on this issue is not widely or less applied.
II. Beauty and brains are described as having good-looks and intelligence in any women or men. Beauty and brains correlation goes both ways, but is not perfect.
III. By virtue of the theory of beauty with brains, I believe that we should appreciate that all of us have the opportunity to sharpen our beauty and intelligence.
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Bibliography
Journal
Richard Morin. The Beauty and the Brainy. Sunday, May 30, 2004; Page B05.
Magazine
Rina Ahmad Sapiuddin, “On top of the world” The Malaysian Women’s Weekly, March 2007.
Internet Sources
Diana Buterez, Beauty and Brains. “True or False?” www.softpedia.com
Beauty and brains often come together. http://www.futurepundit.com.archives/002143.html
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