| Both tragic and bizarre...
I'm not surprised though. When I was in Japan during the early 90s I noticed that many ads portrayed characters with obviously Western features. Even those models who were Japanese by birth had traits that evoked Western concepts of attractiveness.
I really loathe artificial "beauty" to begin with... for example I find excessive makeup or obvious bleach blond hair looks tacky, and I have no empathy at all for those women whose breast implants go wrong.
And then there's the whole issue of extremely unhealthy dieting and related eating disorders..
However... to see other cultures attempting to emulate our so-called standards of "beauty" is perhaps even more disturbing.
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