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[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]

I agree.  Women everywhere get surgery to look more caucasian, especially nosejobs.  What makes her any different than, for example, J. Lo.  Michael Jackson.  etc.[/quote]

She's not. In fact, MJ was a poster child for the impact of that type of internalized self hatred fueled by a culture that values European looks. By the time he was done frying, dyeing, cutting, and carving himself he'd morphed from looking like an attractive Black man to an unattractive White woman. Lot of psychological  damage there on a number of fronts, clearly. But to ignore the fact that his improvements (and those of several of his siblings) altered their ethnic looking features to look more Euro is far from coincidental.

As for the point that tons of women get surgeries to look more European and this helps them get jobs and therefore this isn't racist...
Sigh. 
Yes. It is. The issue is that they would feel pressured to get surgeries to look more European to get those jobs. Ask yourself, why those particular features? Why are those features valued so highly by both the women and those who employ them? What culturally and historically could have happened in order to set up such a dynamic? Why aren't their own god given features enough to help them get the job?

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