@Loki
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Are you a US citizen or live elsewhere?
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I am a US citizen.
@Denethorn
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I'm unclear on topic of debate in this topic... are we criticising the desire to improve oneself taken to extremes, or the dominance of Western concepts of beauty?
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To answer this question, you should determine whether leg lengthening, double-eyelid surgery and skin whitening constitutes an improvement.
Apparently, thousands of women, including very young girls, think it does. Desire to look good is natural. However, today, “Looking good” is often equated with “Looking Western”. And “Looking Western” is often equated with “Looking upper class”. Is it natural as well?
Driving along the Metro Manila highway I was shocked to see the advertisement boards telling the good-looking and beautiful brown-skinned Filipinos to use skin bleaching cream and “get 99% Whiter, Better”. Simply put, it says that white skin is most beautiful and desirable and other skin colours are less than better, that can only mean worse. Newspapers and beauty shops all over Asia carry the same message – dark skin is inferior, white is right and it is might too.
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The promotion of the white Caucasian model of beauty as superior to all others is not confined to skin colour and facial complexion but goes to the extent of promoting cosmetic surgery to change the shape of the face, nose, ears and eyes. It is a business that is worth US$160 Billion annually. The propaganda and brain bleaching techniques are working. Asians, thoroughly brainwashed by the ‘White is Right’ strategy of the marketing moguls are turning to cosmetic surgery as never before to slice up their natural features and give them that western or Caucasian look associated with power, superiority and success. The Racist Quest for GlobalBbeauty (Full Version)