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This is why plastic surgery is so big in Hollywood. It's literally a career investment. In countries like South Korea plastic surgery is extremely routine, esp
by klipt 9y ago
This is why plastic surgery is so big in Hollywood. It's literally a career investment.
In countries like South Korea plastic surgery is extremely routine, especially for girls - their parents will give them plastic surgery as a birthday gift. You can read that as shallowness in society, or simply a greater willingness to accept, pragmatically, that people in every society are shallow.
http://www.businessinsider.com/south-korea-is-the-plastic-surgery-capital-of-the-world-2015-9 http://www.businessinsider.com/south-korea-is-the-plastic-su...
The problem is, once everyone gets plastic surgery, if you're one of the few who don't your natural looks will stick out like a sore thumb.
- ams6110 9y agoPlastic surgery also doesn't confer anything to one's offspring, other than by perhaps improving one's chances to get a better-looking mate (who might also be surgically altered, so maybe not).
- klipt 9y agoExactly, if everyone's plastic surgeried, then it's a complete lottery who in the next generation gets attractive genes. Without plastic surgery, there's more assortive mating which preserves attractiveness from parents to children.
- downrightmike 9y agoEither way, people are just trying best their chances. Naturally or otherwise, they (we) know what is attractive, and some are more willing to go to extremes to get there and be more like what they want. https://www.britannica.com/science/positive-assortative-mating https://www.britannica.com/science/positive-assortative-mati...
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- Y7ZCQtNo39 9y agoI know it's subjective, but lot of people look less attractive after getting plastic surgery. Maybe what I've seen are some of the tail end (e.g., not one procedure, but people getting literally dozens of procedures).
- sushid 9y agoIt's also confirmation bias. If you don't notice that they got a plastic surgery (because it looks good/natural), you won't include him/her in that category. I've seen many Korean girls with eye/nose jobs and they look very attractive.
- 0xcde4c3db 9y agoIn some (skeptic/atheist?) circles this is known as the "toupée fallacy", from a person saying that they've never seen a realistic hairpiece.