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I'm not saying every South Korea woman who gets plastic surgery and uses skin whitening cream, every Japanese girl who dyes her hair blonde, or every Indian woman who whitens her skin and gets contact lenses consciously wants to be the all-American blonde ideal, but it's clear that typical Asian traits - in South Korea small eyes, and broad noses in SE Asia, as well as dark skin in India, are rarely featured among women who are considered 'beautiful' in those countries. How many 'hot' Korean actresses or pop stars have you seen with slit-like eyes, which are common in Korea? How many Filipino beauties have super-broad noses or dark skin?
I'm not saying it's wrong or these women shouldn't do it, nor that these features are necessarily only European: each Asian group may already have some of these features but few tend to have all of them. Maybe Northern Indian and some Chinese, Japanese and mixed Filipinos. If this wasn't the case, than vast numbers of women in S.Korea wouldn't be getting eye surgery.
I remember a film about Genghis Khan where it said in Mongolia the most beautiful women had the smallest eyes. Not sure if it that was true for the time, but I do wonder if beauty is as innate as people say it is. I admit I'm not attracted to strongly Mongoloid features myself, and there are PLENTY of natural Asians who are attractive. I've just noticed all the Asian contestants in the Miss Universe contest do not look like the average women of their countries.
I think being fair-skinned has long been a beauty standard for Asian races since historical times, and IMO has got nothing to do with the Western perspective.
However, having double eyelids, a high and narrow nose bridge, voluptuous, curvy figures, long legs etc... All these are Western standards of beauty.
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I think being fair-skinned has long been a beauty standard for Asian races since historical times, and IMO has got nothing to do with the Western perspective.
However, having double eyelids, a high and narrow nose bridge, voluptuous, curvy figures, long legs etc... All these are Western standards of beauty.
Yes, it's not ONLY about skin colour, which some fail to realise. A Korean woman can have porcelain skin yet have a round, broad face, slit like eyes, single-eyelids, a low nose bridge, even broadish nose - in other words not resemble a Northern European woman at all. If you'll notice, many of those old Chinese or Japanese paintings feature women with very small eyes, so I think the idea that big eyes are universally beautiful wasn't the case in ancient China. The original Chinese were like Tibetans so generally had small eyes. Southern Chinese are a different matter.
Some of the things you mention, like having long legs, are also kind of a modern thing IMO. Indeed the standards of Western beauty have changed a lot in the past 100 years. The only thing which is different in Asia is, ironically, a preference for paler skin than the tanned skin in say the US.
I'm not saying every South Korea woman who gets plastic surgery and uses skin whitening cream, every Japanese girl who dyes her hair blonde, or every Indian woman who whitens her skin and gets contact lenses consciously wants to be the all-American blonde ideal, but it's clear that typical Asian traits - in South Korea small eyes, and broad noses in SE Asia, as well as dark skin in India, are rarely featured among women who are considered 'beautiful' in those countries. How many 'hot' Korean actresses or pop stars have you seen with slit-like eyes, which are common in Korea? How many Filipino beauties have super-broad noses or dark skin?
I'm not saying it's wrong or these women shouldn't do it, nor that these features are necessarily only European: each Asian group may already have some of these features but few tend to have all of them. Maybe Northern Indian and some Chinese, Japanese and mixed Filipinos. If this wasn't the case, than vast numbers of women in S.Korea wouldn't be getting eye surgery.
I remember a film about Genghis Khan where it said in Mongolia the most beautiful women had the smallest eyes. Not sure if it that was true for the time, but I do wonder if beauty is as innate as people say it is. I admit I'm not attracted to strongly Mongoloid features myself, and there are PLENTY of natural Asians who are attractive. I've just noticed all the Asian contestants in the Miss Universe contest do not look like the average women of their countries.
You have a broad sense of stereotyping caricture like images
most filipinos have flat nose...but I havent met any filipino with this superbroad nose you talk about
many NEAsians have small eyes...though I have never met anyone with slit eyes like you talk about
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You have a broad sense of stereotyping caricture like images
most filipinos have flat nose...but I havent met any filipino with this superbroad nose you talk about
many NEAsians have small eyes...though I have never met anyone with slit eyes like you talk about
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I'd say it's pretty broad. Flat noses like that are typical SE Asia and Southern China. Most Chinese, Filipino, Thai beauty queens, actresses, models do not have very flat noses.
I'd say it's pretty broad. Flat noses like that are typical SE Asia and Southern China. Most Chinese, Filipino, Thai beauty queens, actresses, models do not have very flat noses.
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