Surgery to Look "More Western"?

ellebud
Wed, 25 May 2011 18:38:21 +0000

cbreeze: The origins and landslide popularity, post WW2, of the eyelid surgery was to make Japanese look less Asian, and ergo more “acceptable” (after the war) and beautiful. You have to remember the time and place where the surgery originated. One of my best friends, half Japanese, had an older sister who had the surgery at 14 or 15. She wanted to look more “American.”

The origin of caucasians tanning themselves? To look like you had plenty of leisure time to lay out in the sun, as opposed to working. (Forget people who worked outside…)