>
> I have had the most disconcerting expereince of being in Indonesia
/Java,
> where they regard people with a tendency to rotundness as an
object of
> beauty, and expression of wealth and good fortune.. So much so,
that at a
> social gathering people wanted to sit next to me because it would
bring them
> good luck.
It makes sense to me! I come from a typically Jewish family which
equates food with love, but took on the thin is beautiful psychosis of
late twentieth century British society. The consequence is some
seriously screwed up women in my family.
farah
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