The Model Doesn't Matter
By hereandthere
@hereandthere (45645)
Philippines
June 21, 2017 1:54am CST
I've been using PayPal for years now and have noticed, whenever I log into the site, how they have changed the models over the years. I am Asian and based in Asia. We are homogeneous in terms of skin tone, hair and eye color. But, to be honest, it doesn't matter to me if the models PayPal used are Caucasians, or looking like they're in places I've never been to and doing things I don't do (meaning, lifestyle and way of living). I know PayPal is an American company, and I'm only availing of their services. I don't even begrudge them the service fees and conversion fees for non-US accounts. In fact, if they only showed a logo, with no models at all on the site, it won't matter to me, either. I would still use PayPal because I need it and it's the most convenient for me.
The store mannequins at the malls and even sidewalk stalls here are usually tall, fair, with ideal physique and Caucasian features (narrow noses with high bridges). Maybe it’s because these mannequins are imported (not manufactured here), but I think shoppers only focus on the clothes itself, anyway. They know they’re only for display purposes to catch their attention. Because, at the end of the day, people will still buy and wear what they want, like wearing boots in a hot and humid country.
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17 responses
@Shavkat (140131)
• Philippines
24 Jun 17
@hereandthere I will call their attention if being discriminated. I had done this before in Tajikistan.
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@hereandthere (45645)
• Philippines
22 Jun 17
what would make you feel discriminated?
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@hereandthere (45645)
• Philippines
21 Jun 17
i noticed you have a mannequin at your boss's birthday party.
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@SIMPLYD (90721)
• Philippines
21 Jun 17
@hereandthere I was wondering too, why those who decorated the venue have that. Maybe they likened my boss to a mannequin - sexy. 
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@hereandthere (45645)
• Philippines
21 Jun 17
@SIMPLYD oh, i thought it was you and the other staff that decorated the venue.
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@UmiNoor (4522)
• Malaysia
21 Jun 17
I love Paypal but they do charge a lot for the conversions. And for transfer of funds to local banks. They must earn a lot from all these charges. And with regards to the models they use on their website, it doesn't really affect my use of the website so I don't really care what models they use.
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@UmiNoor (4522)
• Malaysia
21 Jun 17
@hereandthere Store mannequins here seem quite generic. There are shops that feature faceless mannequins and there are also those that display headless mannequins. And they are also of various colours; black, white, yellow, beige and so on. So, we can't really see the racial features of these mannequins.
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@hereandthere (45645)
• Philippines
21 Jun 17
here, aside from the conversion fees, you will be deducted 50 pesos (1 dollar) if you're transferring less then 7,000 pesos from paypal to your bank.
by the way, what do the store mannequins look like in malaysia?
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@hereandthere (45645)
• Philippines
21 Jun 17
when i check out online sites, i always check 1. if they accept international members, and 2. if they pay through paypal.
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@jstory07 (140022)
• Roseburg, Oregon
21 Jun 17
@hereandthere It is good to always check.
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@hereandthere (45645)
• Philippines
21 Jun 17
@jstory07 because one time i was invited to join a site, but when i read the rules it only accepts certain countries, so i didn't join. the site didn't last long anyway.
@LadyDuck (472087)
• Switzerland
21 Jun 17
Can you believe that I pay so little attention to the PayPal login page that I could not even say what they display? The store mannequins are all tall and thin in every country of the world, surely they do not represent the majority of the population.
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@hereandthere (45645)
• Philippines
21 Jun 17
i remember the video of the musician. then it changed to asian models, also younger.
i didn't know store mannequins are the same all over the world. i guess there's only one mold/standard measurement in manufacturing them?
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@LadyDuck (472087)
• Switzerland
21 Jun 17
@hereandthere They are not identical, but very similar. Most of the stores use the smaller sizes to show, because they usually look nicer.
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@hereandthere (45645)
• Philippines
22 Jun 17
were you ever told to lose weight?
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@hereandthere (45645)
• Philippines
23 Jun 17
@DianneN i was wondering when it started, asking models to lose weight
@DianneN (247184)
• United States
22 Jun 17
@hereandthere No, lol! Now I could stand to knock off a few!
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36850)
• Pamplona, Spain
5 Jul 17
I have never noticed that at all probably because its all in Spanish and I just concentrate on what is in front of me.
Those model things should all be the same just a figure and nothing else.
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@much2say (56122)
• Los Angeles, California
3 Jul 17
I never really took notice of who they use on PayPal - how funny! I have noticed that many stores are now using headless mannequins but of course the bodies are still pretty much the same. I guess any of these companies have to show what they feel is most attractive to portray an image, but definitely it's not a representation of what the real world is like all the time.
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@hereandthere (45645)
• Philippines
4 Jul 17
there are headless mannequins here, too, and mannequins with no facial features. but you're right, the male and female bodies shapes are all the same.
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@toniganzon (72532)
• Philippines
22 Jun 17
Oh, I haven't noticed any models at all. Probably because I'm using PayPal as an app in my phone.
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@Letranknight2015 (52090)
• Philippines
16 Oct 17
They're just displaying the latest clothes, but then again it's up to the customers which one they want. And usually some research first before buying one.
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
21 Jun 17
I dont pay attention to the models that often myself
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@ARIES1973 (11426)
• Legaspi, Philippines
18 Jul 17
One of the proven strategies in order to rank up in search engines is by having images in a content. This is one of the Search Engine Optimization of the site.
@cacay1 (83577)
• Cagayan De Oro, Philippines
21 Jun 17
Still, I cannot reject Pay Pal though I have just experienced a glitch in their site, it's they that resolved the problem so quick that it did not reach days but few hours.
@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
23 Jun 17
we are Asians that is why maybe their models are also Asians
