The Eye of the Beholder

Beauty isn't an absolute thing.

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• race
• beauty
• asian
• white
• caucasian
• skin

[Fe1ion]

Oh and by the way, not just that some Asian women bleached their skin, but if they have thin eyes, they also go into surgery and change the size of it. Some may also use blue contact lens. *Face palm*, It's just too weird to see people like that. I don't want to call them "wannabes", but it's just really strange! I also see a few Asian people at my school who bleached their hair blond.

[Anekantavad]

I have seen bleached hair on Asian women (in Japan it is very common) and I suspect that's more of just a fashion than trying to be "white". Eye "straightening" though, is obviously trying to look less "Asian", and I often see this as a regrettable way that the West has influenced the world, even if unintentionally. An Asian woman in Canada is IMO unlikely to do this, as she is certainly aware that "Asian eyes" are seen as quite nice and perfectly OK. I think it happens more in Asia than here.

[Fe1ion]

Haha, I'm Asian and I got this nasty dark tan on my arms, and when I go swimming, my friends sometimes point out how dark my arms are compared to my chest. I'm not intending to bleach my skin color, but I just want my normal skin color back (which probably won't happen, but I could live with it). And as for any other dark skinned or tanned people who want to bleach their skin pale, I say it's wrong and kinda creepy in a way. O__O

[Anekantavad]

Creepy indeed. There is no such thing IMO as an ugly race or even ugly racial characteristics, and as I said, someone's ugliness is someone else's beauty.

But then there's the gender issue. Men are usually not nearly as susceptible to conventional ideas of beauty as women are, and they are under a lot less pressure to "be beautiful" than women.

And that goes for every culture you care to name :-)

[Anekantavad]

... heh heh .... in all our cases as a matter of fact. Like I said, it works both ways ;-)

[Anekantavad]

Heh heh ... well, it gets eaier as one's body ages, and I am quite glad about that! ;-)

But yes, inner beauty is the only real beauty.

[LoggyWD]

You think you are funny

dumbass

[Fe1ion]

Cross dressing is very common in Japan and somewhat in South Korea as well. If you ever seen a few of them, they actually do look like a woman and less than of a man, unless they speak then that blows their cover haha. I also notice their male celebrities sometimes cross dress and most of them with long fashionable hair. I guess I'll assume in Asia, feminine men are more attractive to them.

[2OpposableThumbsUP]

Dude you have alot of chrarisma and are well spoken, you should audition for like an anthropology show on Discoverery channel or something.

[dQuarters]

I've been attracted to a very specific set of features my whole life. The individual features are fairly common across racial lines. But I find the set uncommon in general.

So I go goofy from time to time seeing these variations of my dream girl iterated through so many cultures.

[restowannbe]

well said 5/5