Questão 699772

Generation Diva

How our obsession with beauty is changing our kids.

1 Sounds extreme? Maybe. But this, my friends, is the

new normal: a generation that dyes and shapes, younger and

with more vigor. Girls today are salon vets before they enter

4 elementary school.

Reared on reality TV and celebrity makeovers, girls

are using beauty products earlier, spending more and still

7 feeling worse about themselves.

Why are this generation's standards different? To

start, this is a group that's grown up on pop culture that

10 screams, again and again, that everything, everything, is a

candidate for upgrading. These girls are maturing in an age

when older women are taking even more extreme measures,

13 from Botox to liposuction.

A combination of new technology and the Web is

responsible — at least in part — for this transformation in

16 attitudes. Ads for the latest fashions, makeup tips and

grooming products are circulated with a speed and fury

unique to this millennium — on millions of ads, message

19 boards and Facebook pages. Digital cameras come complete

with retouching options, and anyone can learn how to use

Photoshop to blend and tighten and thin. “None of this

22 existed when I was growing up, and now it’s just like in your

face,” says Solomon, 30. “Kids aren’t exempt just because

they’re young.”

Internet: <www.newsweek.com> (adapted).

Based on the text above, judge the following items.

The word “upgrading” (l.11) can be correctly replaced by improving, without changing the general meaning of the text.