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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op here. Wow, did not mean for this to get so... heated... and racist. We're South Asian, and yes it is quite common for very young babies to have it done. I was on the fence about it for my own DD but thought it would be nice for when she gets a bit older to make it a fun thing to do together if she wants it. The more rational/ non racist/ normal folks on here, would 8 be a good age to take her to have them done?[/quote]

I have the same attitude-- save it for the future, when she asks, as a special thing or a birthday present. Go the mall, get ice cream cones after. That kind of thing.

I do have to say about people with cultural arguments, and people who think it's racist to say these cultural arguments are silly: my family is South Asian too, and the adults who live in India and had their noses pierced as babies absolutely regret it and are embarrassed about it. These days in parts of urban India, nose rings are a sign of non-modernity, something backward and country. It's no longer typical for the urban middle class, at least in the part of India I'm familiar with, to pierce daughter's noses as a matter of course, but it used to be. So "culture" is constantly changing; we cannot predict what our kids will find attractive or embarrassing; and holes are permanent changes in the body-- even if they do close eventually, they leave scars.

Besides, there are many other aspects of the "traditional" "cultural" treatment of gender in India that I'm not comfortable with...[/quote]

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