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Cosmetic surgery for babies?

nCred

nCred

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I was in Taiwan last week and spotted this advertisement..

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Is this popular in Asia? I don't speak chinese so I don't know what it says on the sign.
 
Yep. It's becoming increasingly popular in South Korea. Competition to succeed is fierce. In places like China, Taiwan, and South Korea being beautiful goes hand in hand with success. When you send in your resume or CV letter you have to send in a picture of yourself. They want to see if you're young or old. Short or fat. Light or dark skinned. The lighter your skin the better chance that you'll be hired. Whitening creams are very popular in Asia. In South Korea they can even go back to your medical records to see if you have physical or mental issues. They want the perfect candidate.

Anyway, babies in South Korea are getting the skin snipped under their tongues so they can speak better English. Some Asian mothers are nuts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GdNnBCaocI
 
Korea74 said:
Yep. It's becoming increasingly popular in South Korea. Competition to succeed is fierce. In places like China, Taiwan, and South Korea being beautiful goes hand in hand with success. When you send in your resume or CV letter you have to send in a picture of yourself. They want to see if you're young or old. Short or fat. Light or dark skinned. The lighter your skin the better chance that you'll be hired. Whitening creams are very popular in Asia. In South Korea they can even go back to your medical records to see if you have physical or mental issues. They want the perfect candidate.

Anyway, babies in South Korea are getting the skin snipped under their tongues so they can speak better English. Some Asian mothers are nuts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GdNnBCaocI
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it's amazing how an ethnicity can hate itself so much and nobody says anything.
 
Well the light skin goes back long before Europeans began interacting with them on a regular basis. Fairness is associated with wealth. Since rich people didn't have to work in the fields, they didn't get a tan. You find this same attitude pretty much everywhere outside of Europe.

It was the same in Europe up until the industrial revolution. White people like tanned skin, because wealth is instead associated with having greater leisure time. As opposed to poorer people who are pale as they work in dark factories, coal mines, or offices, and they don't have the resources to travel to tropical destinations regularly.

As for Asians and their eyes, I'm not quite sure where this comes from. I've gotten mixed explanations and many feel that they aren't trying to look more European. This phenomenon seems to be limited to North-East Asia. Places in the north where widespread Western colonialism didn't take root. I haven't heard of it as much in places like Indo-China and the Philippines. I think there's just a preference for larger eyes, on women especially, because they're seen as more expressive. I once dated a Chinese girl with small eyes. She was very self conscious about them. Though she never really explained it to me.

North-East Asia definitely has some body image issues, especially in the urban areas. I wonder if they'll ever implement western style hiring laws that forbid that type of discrimination.
 
mmntech said:
As for Asians and their eyes, I'm not quite sure where this comes from. I've gotten mixed explanations and many feel that they aren't trying to look more European. This phenomenon seems to be limited to North-East Asia. Places in the north where widespread Western colonialism didn't take root. I haven't heard of it as much in places like Indo-China and the Philippines. I think there's just a preference for larger eyes, on women especially, because they're seen as more expressive. I once dated a Chinese girl with small eyes. She was very self conscious about them. Though she never really explained it to me.
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Even in Western magazines, when they're photoshopping the models, they enlarge the eyes. It's to trigger the mammalian "cute" response.

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Hey, everyone wants to be like a Westerner - looking good on the outside, going to college, pursuing success. Even if that means abandoning your entire culture, like the Asians (China, India, Japan, Korea, etc.) are doing. Throw away your culture that, although had many many flaws, still said that one must have control.

Now, it's pursue your pleasures at the expense of everything else. Baby looks a certain way? Easy. Change the way it looks. Feeling depressed? Easy. Take drugs. Want to live like a Westerner with a car and a house? Easy. Go to college and imitate him.
 
brianmanahan said:
this isnt really any different than making your kid get braces
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It is. Braces can be helpful in terms of teeth (sounds very obvious, right?).

Becoming white, in terms of physical features might boost the ego but it shows your unacceptence of yourself. Quite a bit.

Unfortunately, this unacceptence is everything in the world. The idea of one's way of life is inferior to the West is everywhere. They all want to be like Westerners.

In India, they only show the light colored people on TV (at least most of them). In China, they have totally abandoned their ancient traditions. In Taiwan, you see the OP. In Japan, same thing. Korea, same thing. People imitating.

Watch any Asian movie, nothing but Western style themes - clothes, way of living, the buildings in their cities. Same thing goes for any of these other countries.
 
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