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The Aesthetics of Asian American Women: Do Asian American w

Cosmetic Surgery has become the corner stone of Asian aesthetics and fashion. Through media, advertisements, and racial stereotyping, western culture has greatly influenced cosmetic surgery among Asian American women. In return, Asian American women have chosen body mutilation as a passive approach to assimilate to society. There are many other environments that have also contributed to this surgical boom, which have inadvertently labeled Asian American women as superficial and vain. Perhaps these assumptions are true, but by gathering information from articles and ethnographic research, I would like to argue that the reason why Asian American women endure extensive cosmetic surgery is because they feel that their looks are undesirable to society. The most obvious reason that contributes to this feeling of undesirability is because of western influence.

Historians have dated the foundations of reconstructive surgery all the way back to ancient Egypt and India. But the most important movement of reconstructive surgery in America began with the World War I (Ciaschini 2001). Through the years, reconstructive surgery has lost its sole purpose, to restore human appendages, and has branched out into the monstrous

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