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You see some of the opposite here in America. For some reason or another, people tend to prefer an Asian-looking kung fu teacher to a Caucasian or African-Ameri
by lambdasquirrel 13y ago
You see some of the opposite here in America. For some reason or another, people tend to prefer an Asian-looking kung fu teacher to a Caucasian or African-American one.
The present-day East Asian cultures have become strangely obsessed with image. There was one Taiwanese pop star, I think her name was Jolin or something, she's rumored to have had 3 different plastic surgeries in the last however many years, and come out looking quite different in each one. It's supposedly kind of scandalous now in Korea, when a husband and wife marry and then the kids turn out looking nothing like the parents.
- noname123 13y ago> when a husband and wife marry and then the kids turn out looking nothing like the parents. Doesn't seem like a bad thing, just means that there should a good market for plastic surgery for the next generation.
- cm2012 13y agoYeah, I'm not sure what the common 20-something intellectual culture has with plastic surgery. We're all assigned a certain level of genetic prettiness at birth, out of our control (as measured by how people perceive you, facial symmetry, etc.) Isn't plastic surgery a great equalizer?
- kalleboo 13y agoIt's not an equalizer if not everyone can afford it, instead it creates an even larger gap between the haves and the have-nots.