In his book The Quest for Human Beauty, author Julian Robinson notes that standards of beauty are cultural, and are passed down from generation to generation. Beauty, he says, is in the cultural eye of the beholder.
「美醜觀標準反映文化觀點，而且是從先輩承襲來的。人的美醜如何，取決於觀看者是用何種文化之眼在看」，《美學地圖》作者，英國服裝、新聞工作者朱利安．羅賓遜如是說。