Traduction de «Ideal self » (Anglais → Français) :

18. Notes that marketing and advertising portrayals of the ideal body image can adversely affect the self-esteem of women and men, particularly teenagers and those susceptible to eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa; calls on advertisers to consider carefully their use of extremely thin women to advertise products;

21. Draws attention to the report entitled "Eating Disorders, Body Image and the Media" published in 2000 by the British Medical Association; notes that media portrayals of the ideal body image can adversely effect the self-esteem of women, particularly teenagers and those susceptible to eating disorders such anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa; recommends that broadcasters, magazine publishers and advertisers adopt a more responsible editorial attitude towards the depiction of extremely thin women as role models and portray a more realistic range of body images; calls on advertisers in particular to consider more carefully their use ...[+++] of extremely thin women to advertise products;

While the document expresses an ideal shared by many Canadians, it lacks the clarity and definition that would make the actual implementation of self-government feasible.

The Defence Department's unwillingness to air its problems and grandly assure Canadians that private self-examination is the ideal solution is nothing short of deplorable.

In 1994, the report of the Surgeon General of the United States similarly noted that tobacco promotion provides a conduit between a young person's actual self-image and his or her ideal self-image.

This was a generation never known to whisper in the defence of human rights and freedoms - in the condemnation of the self-absorption and intolerance of an inflexible and rigid nationalist ideal.