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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Seriously, TONS of women in China get surgeries like this, as well as nose jobs etc, to look more Euro. It does help them get jobs. Not racist at all. [/quote]

Surely you understand the correlation between altering one's features to look more Euro and get a job and the issue that looking more Euro is the desired quality that would help one net a job...
You do understand that this is a form of self hatred born of internalized racism...the idea that in order to be beautiful and acceptable a person must look European, right? And you do get that it is not okay for those in positions of power to pressure people to alter their ethnic features to fit some homogenized, Euro-centric standard of acceptable beauty?
Please, please tell me you've at least read something at some point of your on the impact of colonialism. 
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Would [i]looking[/i] more European make her less Asian? No. Which is not to say that the pressures that women feel to change their appearances to match some "other" ideal aren't relevant or important, but I don't see how surgically altering her appearance would address workplace racism. If someone hates a particular group, I don't think changing one's appearance is going to fix the other person's bigotry.[/quote]

The connection to workplace racism here is that her non Asian manager and and agent told her that her distinctly ethnic looking Asian eyes were hampering her ability to appeal to broader, non Asian audiences. 
Of course she can't erase her ethnicity by altering her features (and I would argue that her nose job fits this category as well. She went from a broader nose to a more Euro looking one). However, her attempts to broaden her appeal by looking less like a minority are a direct result of working in an environment where a European standard is held up as the gold standard. 
That is part of the insidious nature of workplace racism. 
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