Hey y'all! Happy Sunday Evening!
So our group was assigned to analyze Dr. Namumanu on Thursday. Well, as y'all know, she is a plastic surgeon. Her profession reminded me of this article I saw about half a year ago over 20 Korean beauty pageants looking identical due to plastic surgery. Two lines really popped out to me from the article:
"The popularity of surgery, particularly among the young, has been blamed by some on a desire to look more 'western' fueled by an obsession with celebrity culture. "
"The surgery takes away their individuality and uniqueness and its sad. Most are beautiful without it but telling them that their Korean ethnic features are in fact lovely is as effective as screaming at a brick wall. They won't believe you because they've been brainwashed to think westernization of their features is superior. I don't think they want to look white, but a mix of white and Asian and definitely less Korean."
When I was reading Boy Genius, I felt that a boy changing his physical appearance to match the majority crowd in America is ridiculous and it only exists in fictional novels. Yet when we think about the world around us, maybe in different contexts, cases like Boy Genius do exist and it is scary to think how strongly some people feel the need to change their looks to fit in the crowd.
You can read more about this at this link: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2314647/Has-plastic-surgery-20-Korean-beauty-pageant-contestants-look-Pictures-contest-hopefuls-goes-viral.html
So our group was assigned to analyze Dr. Namumanu on Thursday. Well, as y'all know, she is a plastic surgeon. Her profession reminded me of this article I saw about half a year ago over 20 Korean beauty pageants looking identical due to plastic surgery. Two lines really popped out to me from the article:
"The popularity of surgery, particularly among the young, has been blamed by some on a desire to look more 'western' fueled by an obsession with celebrity culture. "
"The surgery takes away their individuality and uniqueness and its sad. Most are beautiful without it but telling them that their Korean ethnic features are in fact lovely is as effective as screaming at a brick wall. They won't believe you because they've been brainwashed to think westernization of their features is superior. I don't think they want to look white, but a mix of white and Asian and definitely less Korean."
When I was reading Boy Genius, I felt that a boy changing his physical appearance to match the majority crowd in America is ridiculous and it only exists in fictional novels. Yet when we think about the world around us, maybe in different contexts, cases like Boy Genius do exist and it is scary to think how strongly some people feel the need to change their looks to fit in the crowd.
You can read more about this at this link: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2314647/Has-plastic-surgery-20-Korean-beauty-pageant-contestants-look-Pictures-contest-hopefuls-goes-viral.html
Question: So what do y'all think about plastic surgery?
--Jessie Wu
--Jessie Wu
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