This is about how beauty and physical appearance is just a matter of perception .
The following excerpt is from narration of -The Gods must be crazy...a Bushman (an African tribe) who lives in the heart of Kalahari desert -how he perceives some white people from civilized society he meets on his way to end of the earth:
(On encountering Miss thompson - a slim beautiful white woman with curly hair)
That morning, Xi saw the ugliest person he'd ever come across.
She was as pale as something that had crawled out of a rotting log.
Her hair was quite gruesome...long and stringy and white, as if she was very old.
She was very big.
You'd have to dig the whole day to find enough food to feed her.
Although it was a hot day, she was wearing skins...
...that looked as if they were made from cobwebs.
She was doing strange and magical things.
It struck him that she must be one of the gods.
He wondered what she was doing on earth.
He was glad he met her. He'd give her the evil thing...
...and go home to his family.
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(Steyn enters with a cigar in his mouth)
There was another god. He had a fire inside him.
The smoke came out through his mouth and nostrils.
(Approached by Mpudi on a motor vehicle) There was a peculiar sound, and Xi saw a most amazing animal approaching.
It's legs went around instead of up and down.
And there was a weird-looking god on its back.
He wore blue skin on his head and red on his body.
And hair grew on his face.
(As they speak among them in English) The funny thing was that they couldn't speak.
They made chattering sounds like monkeys.
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