Body Image in Asians

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Body Image in Asians Today we live in a society driven by Beauty, Sexuality and Power. The perfect epitome of beauty is the ever desired “American Beauty” which is to be aesthetically pleasing or in other words beautiful with asymmetrical facial features, big beautiful blue eyes, a perfectly chiseled nose and full lips. We desire to have a body as proportionate as a Victoria’s Secret Model with luminous glowing skin. That being said we wonder how that can be naturally achieved if our genes are far different from the Caucasian race. The minority groups of Asian American women naturally have smaller structures and smaller figures than other minorities on average. Correspondingly, within the Asian societies both here and overseas, it is recommended that a female should have what is defined as a realistic body image. Given these facts, the imageries given from the mass media are contended and discussions about attractiveness and body image are initiated during childhood. Because of these influences, many assume that Asian women are insusceptible to damaging imageries in the mass media, but many Asian women now claim that they are susceptible as well. Setting the bar so high on the idealistic epitome of what beauty is and what it should be, many Asian women run to cosmetic surgery, rhinoplasty, breast augmentation, blepharoplasty, skin lightening (whitening) procedures and contact lens use. Cosmetic Surgery, Rhinoplasty, Breast Augmentation and Bleparoplasty The drive to achieve the so-called “Perfect Epitome of Beauty” motivates Asian women to enter Cosmetic Surgery, Rhinoplasty, Breast Augmentation and Bleparoplasty. Rhinoplasty, also referred to as nose surgery, is a surgical procedure that can shorten or lengthen your nose, change its shape or contour, narrow the nostrils, or lift and define the tip. Many Asians are naturally born with a flat nose which compel and

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