Leo Jiang used to be called Hao Jiang and is one of the thousands of the people in a year who get plastic surgery in order to look less Asian and more Western. The West's obsession with race colors its judgment, projecting discomfort onto surgery that for many may not have any explicit racial essentials.
There’s a mounting inclination for people to revise their racial topographies from double eyelid surgery, to chin grafts, to skin allaying or obscuring. In some cases, patients undertaking such ethnic cosmetic surgery say they are doing so to achieve a more exotic look. While others claim the process is not intent on looking more Caucasian but it is just about being more striking. Insight looks at the budding number of folks who are keen to
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Television is a harsh industry where on air ability can sometimes be assessed like heifers at a 4 – H fair. Part of positioning yourself on the display is having people tell you brutally honest things about your loos, your weight, your voice, your personality. Basically, anything that makes you. And sometimes those comments come from people who may have a positive or negative impact on your career or profession. To Chen, maybe she felt like an eyelid setup, a simple outpatient process, was the only finest option, and maybe surprising that many other aspiring news anchors have had a little nip and tuck that nobody talks about …show more content…
People mostly females are treated better or worse depending on the color of their skin comparative to other people who share their similar racial grouping. Colourism distresses Asian Americans from numerous diverse backgrounds and lives in different areas of the united stated. Joanne L. Rondilla and Paul Spickard ask significant question such as what are the colourism issues that control in Asian American populations. Are they the same issues for all Asian Americans for women and for men, for migrants and the American native, for Chinese, Filipinos, Koreans, Vietnamese, and other Asian American? Do they mirror a wish to look like white people, or is some other enthused at work? Including plentiful tiers about and by people who have encountered discernment in their own lives, this book is an instrumental reserve for people attentive on colourism among Asian
Here is some advice to my younger Asian American self, growing up in a media filled industry focused on physical attraction, accept the things that cannot be changed, especially your own race. Unless going under the knife was ever an option you cannot change the way your facial features are arranged that identifies and distinguishes you as being Asian. This problem you and many other people of color have, arise from media images published in mediums such as magazines that predominately represent the Caucasian race and Caucasian features as being the most beautiful and most accepted. Because of this, Susan Bordo from the Empire of Images explains that these images, “speak to the young people not just about how to be beautiful but about how to become what the dominant culture admires” (21). This admiration of Caucasian features over other racial features explains the media bias that directly contributes to the lack of diversity seen in magazines.
“Why do You Call it Plastic Surgery?” Fighting Ignorance since 1973. Web. 14 March 2014.
In today society, beauty in a woman seems to be the measured of her size, or the structure of her nose and lips. Plastic surgery has become a popular procedure for people, mostly for women, to fit in social class, race, or beauty. Most women are insecure about their body or face, wondering if they are perfect enough for the society to call the beautiful; this is when cosmetic surgery comes in. To fix what “needed” to be fixed. To begin with, there is no point in cutting your face or your body to add or remove something most people call ugly. “The Pitfalls of Plastic Surgery” explored the desire of human to become beyond perfection by the undergoing plastic surgery. The author, Camille Pagalia, took a look how now days how Americans are so obsessed
Surgeons discussed their widespread discomfort about how many people were getting plastic surgery because of these programs. When they were asked what they’re greatest fear is they responded, “The reason for getting plastic surgery”. They believe it is encouraging them to altar themselves in a negative manner. This is also one of the issues that Pink, an American singer, song writer, and actress brings to attention in her video “Stupid
Cosmetic surgery is a common topic among people as a way to elevate one 's state of beauty and to relate to the beauty standard that is set for both sexes. In America, people go through cosmetic procedures to satisfy their desire to have certain features that they believe to be beautiful such as bigger breasts, tinier waists, bloated lips, tighter skin, etc. However, this craze is nothing compared to South Korea. According to the Wilson Quarterly, South Korea has "an obsession" with plastic surgery with one in five South Korean women going under some type of cosmetic procedure, compared to the one in twenty people in the United States. This craze is due to the belief that an attractive face is needed for a successful career. The most popular
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“Individuals are encouraged, even expected to make ‘lifestyle’ choices to maximize their life chance and simultaneously held responsible for managing and minimizing the risk associated with these decisions” (Leve, 2012:124). Media discourse is part of everyone’s day to day life, ideals of bodies are shown in all these media communication’s in order to appeal to the consumer. This could be considered to have made society become obsessed by looks, meaning that individuals feel the pressures to keep up with how people are represented in the media, for example recognized celebrities in magazines. According to The British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, or BAAPS, there was a 16.5 percent increase of procedures in 2012. These statistics show that cosmetic surgery is becoming normalized, “This is how we live now. Anything that makes us feel better about our appearance, whether it involves needles, knives or acid, is acceptable’ (Wiseman, 2012)
Almost always people are encouraged to change themselves to meet the standards of the media and advertising. There are the few that see nothing wrong with a person for how they look naturally; however, those few usually do not have as much impact as the ones who cause said insecurities. There is so much about the human condition in “The Birthmark” which are still relevant for modern society, even though this story was written 150-200 years ago. One could say that it is sad that things like this are still a problem; maybe even more of a problem than they were before, with people being obsessed with perfection. There is a solace though; the number of those who see nothing wrong with physical diversity is growing. Maybe someday the story "The Birthmark" will no longer be
Since Asians have features that give them a sort of racial identity, many of the women choose to alter these features. For example, it is very common for Asian women to get surgery on their eye lids to remove the appearance of having small or narrow eyes. Another example would be altering their nose to alter the stereotype people hold of Asians having flat noses. Most women who were interviewed stated that the primary reason for getting plastic surgery was that it was a way for them to look like a less stereotypical Asian, and therefore, look the best they could. Therefore, it could be said that in altering their image, they also hope to alter their social status as women of racial
It is also true that we can change and enhance our body features through elective cosmetic surgeries. Many people choose to undergo these surgeries because they are unhappy with their appearance. I feel that these procedures are unnecessary, and that you shouldn’t undergo surgery unless you need it for your health. I believe that people go through these procedures purely because they have low self-esteem. Society tells them that there is something wrong with their body, and they feel that they need to change it to fit in. I think that this is a way to see if someone is truly happy with themselves, as we all should. No one is perfect, so no one should try to be it. It’s just a waste of time and money on their part all so they can fit in, which I think is pathetic. It is always a risk to undergo surgery, and there is no reason to put yourself in unnecessary risk. I think that it is ridiculous to put yourself through something like that. If I had a ten year old dark-skinned African American daughter who wanted blue contact lens, have her skin chemically lightened, and straighten her hair, I definitely say no.
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If you think about all of the mental diseases that have to do with body image, they could all have an impact on whether or not someone considers mutilating their body. A study in August of 2007 shows that the long term risk of suicide in tripled for women who have undergone cosmetic surgery. It has been strongly suggested over the years that to improve mental health of patients undergoing cosmetic surgery should have a mental screening and follow up meeting prior to the surgery, to make sure they will be mentally okay with the change and that they are sure they want to go through. Although these tripled suicide rates could vanish if we all in all ban cosmetic surgery. An article about why people seeking plastic surgery should have mental health screenings says, “Women with breast implants also had higher rates of death from psychiatric disorders, including a three-fold increase in deaths resulting from alcohol and drug dependence. Several additional deaths, classified as accidents or injuries, might have been suicides or involved psychiatric disorders or drug/alcohol abuse as a contributing cause. "Thus at least 38 deaths (22% of all deaths) in this implant cohort were associated with suicide, psychological disorders, and/or drug and alcohol abuse/dependence," the researchers write.” (Espejo) Having a mental order like Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD) could be a huge influence on wanting plastic
...f the world are deeply rooted in tradition and spiritual views. They see these body modifications as a rite of passage in many cases and not so much for aesthetic purposes, even though many of these body modifications are seen as beautiful to many people and many cultures. Western society have adapted some body modifications from the Eastern world, but have used them for aesthetic purposes most of the time. We are a society and a culture revolved around the way things look and how we view ourselves. When a person modifies their body in Western society, it is often for the pure purpose of the way one looks or how something looks on one’s self.
The world of cosmetic surgery is one of the largest and fastest growing industries worldwide, bringing in billions of dollars each year with cosmetic procedures that both men and women are having, in order to improve their looks, self esteem, and fulfilling societies norms and values. Cosmetic surgery has been accepted in certain cultures, this is a way of expressing who the person is. In my opinion cosmetic surgery is a good thing for individuals to pursue. As cosmetic surgery improves mental and physical well being, cosmetic surgeries through media, as cometic surgeries are improving health related issues, and creating opportunities for people.
In 2007 alone, Americans spent $13 billion on 11.7 million cosmetic procedures. This is a fact that, to me is astounding. In such a world of debt and loss of jobs this industry has flourished with out even a hint of slowing down, for some this has become and addiction. Many major television networks have covered the dramatic growth and addiction of the procedure, which such shows as “MTV’s True life I’m getting unusual plastic surgery” or “True life I hate my plastic surgery” as well as “botched” and “My strange addiction”. Now the shows show different spectrums of this billion-dollar industry. For example on an episode of My strange addiction on addict has had 125 different procedures to look like the Ken doll which has cost him up to nearly $160,000. On botched this show centers on procedures that have gone wrong. In once instance the show features a woman named Alicia that has had a breast augmentation that has gone completely wrong from the position of the implants to the location under the skin where they were put