What Kind of Racism Exists in the US?

Pressuring minorities into customizing their looks

Almost everyday on television if you flip through the channels you could probably find at least one show that involves women getting cosmetic surgery. These shows seem to bring a message that getting cosmetic surgery can improve looks and improve a person’s life. Even make over shows can be very persuadable in convincing their viewers that to succeed you need to look beautiful. Media and advertising in Western Society seem to have created an unachievable standard to what the perfect or what is considered “normal” look is for women in general. Therefore, it is no wonder that minority groups like Asian American women are probably more subjected to pressure in customizing their looks like getting eyelid surgery.
Even in today’s society there are many stereotypes, slanders, and jokes that can negatively affect the Asian American women’s perspective of her appearance. Commercialization and advertising in western society can be very misleading, and actually can influence minorities to believe that a person has to have a certain look to fit in. That is why either consciously or subconsciously Asian American women may get surgery on their facial features to look like women in advertisements they have seen or shows they have watched to try to achieve a ridiculous standard that western society has made. 

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