# Why are some people popular in main society?
**URL:** https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/why-are-some-people-popular-in-main-society/7102
**Category:** Non-Philosophical Chat
**Created:** [October 9, 2005, 4:59am UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/why-are-some-people-popular-in-main-society/7102 "2005-10-09T04:59:05Z")
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### Author:  [@Rounder](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/Rounder)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2005, 2:26am UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/why-are-some-people-popular-in-main-society/7102/21 "2005-10-12T02:26:22Z")
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> > its the closer you meet with a large group of approval. The closer your public image is to society’s image of perfect, cool, or beautiful.
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> But there is no one “society’s image of…” there is a proliferation of conflicting images. Is society’s image of female beauty Calista Flockhart or Jennifer Lopez? The anorexic or the voluptuous latina?
Thats why I said “a large group of approval”, before I mentioned the word “society”. I did not mean to allude to society as a whole, just a large social group.
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> > I’ve enjoyed quite a bit of social popularity, and I attribute it tothe fact(and seriousl I’m not an ego maniac) I am intelligent, decent looking, and probably the most important I have a knack at being able to relate to people. I can quickly judge a person, where they are comming from, and then speak to them on there terms.
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> If this is all true then you should have already been aware of what I said in my previous comment.
Yep. See my previous comment 😉
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### Author:  [@someoneisatthedoor](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/someoneisatthedoor)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2005, 11:45am UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/why-are-some-people-popular-in-main-society/7102/22 "2005-10-12T11:45:15Z")
> [@Rounder](#):
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> Thats why I said “a large group of approval”, before I mentioned the word “society”. I did not mean to allude to society as a whole, just a large social group.
Even so within any given group you’ll get variation in impressions of beauty, unless that group is solely united on the basis of a shared impression of beauty, of course.
Of course when you ask people it’s hard to know whether people are giving their impression or simply offering one that hasn’t yet been offered by the other people you just asked. Often people will disagree not because they really disagree but because they don’t want to appear to be following the crowd.
Like the classic prom night ‘I can’t believe she’s wearing the same dress’…
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