Questions

As someone who been into the arts for a very long time, watching art sites that are still active, and looking at art trend, from 90s to today, I notice a slow shift toward diverse representation of what is beautiful, and appealing. Previously, there were idea that really thin ladies are attractive, but now that's not as popular as women who are of normal weight. For most of 90s and 2000s, what is dominant is the representation of white women to symbolize beauty, but that's changing toward more inclusive and diverse representation as in non-white people are beautiful, and even men's bodies are more out there too. So, I can see 2030s and beyond becoming the era of diversity in arts after a massive cultural shift happens.

Personally, I find every demographics beautiful, in and out visually, and I'm an asexual heteroromantic man. But, I do wonder how far are we when it comes to appreciation of beauty in both men and women, and in ethnicity. I don't think appreciation of beauty in bodies (clothed or not) has to do with either romanticism or sexuality, and that's not the case with me.

"It was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire."

— Voltaire, on the Holy Roman Empire.

Constantinople is the capital of the Roman Empire; therefore, you are the lawful Emperor of the Romans. And whoever is the Emperor of the Romans, and remains so, is likewise the Emperor of the entire world.

— Georgios of Trebizond to Mehmed II, 1466

If I remember correctly, Ibn Khaldun argued that those who eat monkey meat become wild, those who eat horse meat become fast, those who eat pork become cuckolded or lacking in jealousy over their spouse, and those who live on a plant-based diet become soft-natured.

It is also true that the Ottomans often recruited their couriers from Tatars who consumed horse meat, for this reason. On the other hand, vegans seem to provide evidence for his case as well.