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- Dmae Lo Roberts
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- "Hollywood Beauty Reigns in Asian-American Eyes"
- Summary: WFUV's George Bodarky reports on the growing number of Asian-Americans seeking plastic surgery to look more like their favorite American celebrities.
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Review of Hollywood Beauty Reigns in Asian-American Eyes
Dmae Lo Roberts
Posted on May 02, 2005 at 05:02 PM
I have so many problems with this piece. First off, one could argue that NYC is not the biggest Chinatown. I believe that San Francisco is larger in population. But really why do this piece? I'm tired of pieces that once again point to the "foreign-ness" of Asian Americans. So what if there is a blonde Asian American? Doesn't she have the right to have blonde streaks as a white girl has the right to have black streaks on her blonde hair? And is the surgery really being done by Asian Americans or Asian immigrants? There is a difference. And there are Asians who are of mixed descent who are born with creases who would like to have more Asian looking eyes. Where are the other perspectives? Why base an entire story on one author's book? If this is for the Global collaboration, then it's really not doing service to the theme. This piece doesn't say anything more than women are being conned into plastic surgery regardless of race or ethnicity.