The rising of beauty standards is higher than it was before, where people are getting plastic surgery just to look like one another. Many people in Asia are getting plastic surgery, especially women to look like the ideal type, which is a “doll” like image. They change their image due to beauty standards that they see in the magazines and on ads. Many go to the extremes to look like their idols or their favorite character. Although there are negative and positive sides of plastic surgery, there will be others who want to, create the ideal image of a person in Asian standard, improve the way others think about themselves, and improve their health conditions. If you want to change the way you look one of the biggest place to get the ideal look …show more content…
In Asia, known as the highest place for depression. Mainly due to pressure from academics, but what if the depression can also be due to self confidence/ insecurities from beauty by seeing ads displayed on the streets and other social media outlets. ‘ “We have seen a rapid increase in depression, and I’d say 80 to 90 percent of our suicides are by products of depression,” said Dr. Kim. Government ” ’ (New York). As academic can be a factor of depression, the standard of beauty can be even more effective, since nowadays the world is based on looks and not what there is to offer from someone. Many places in Asia like business, hire people by their appearance. If the look is not there and the appearance is not presentable, there is not a high chance of getting hired. Which personally seems like a lot of favoritism. For a majority of women, it increases their self confidence as their insecurities have been fixed and they are pleased with the results. A woman named Kim, explains how she was depressed about the way she looked which became a depression/insecurity, but once it was fixed by plastic surgery, it gave her a positive effect on her confidence (CBS). Even though improving self confidence through plastic surgery can help individuals on themselves, but it can also improve health conditions that are needed …show more content…
If you think of it, saying the same thing to a person wants a tattoo even though others may have views of why getting a tattoo would be cool and not. The effects of cosmetic surgery in Asia can be accounted by insecurities or enhancements of what they feel is needed for their own selves as it is if others would be getting something
Look around, depression is everywhere; whether one physically expresses it or not. If not treated, depression can lead to death by suicide. In fact, research
The media plays an important role in influencing the people’s understanding towards the world. Even though the effects per individual are difficult to evaluate, it is evident that they have a widespread impact on society. As a result, this ethnically ambiguous group is dehumanized and stereotyped into a porcelain silent figure. In some cases, Asians in the Americas undergo plastic surgery in order to enhance facial structure and overall appearance to meet the standards of western beauty.
Cultural influences are one of the main factors that contribute to the way Asian Americans view and critique their body and physical appearance throughout their lives. The emphasis of one’s external beauty deeply impacts the
Most people are in a hurry to have a surgery that will change their appearance even though people may look beautiful on the outside, they are ugly on the inside.
Cosmetic surgery, in the U.S., is known to have a negative connotation, because one would consider you “fake” or not true to yourself. From this study done by Weston and Pearls, a large number of teens in this school would consider getting cosmetic surgery. There are different reasons to wanting it done. One might consider it for self-esteem purposes or if they have a medical problem that is disabling them from living a normal life.
According to Britton (2012), last 2008, YWCA USA developed a report Beauty at Any Cost wherein they discuss the consequences of beauty obsession of every woman in America. It shows that beauty obsession results from a decrease in the level of self-esteem. It also gives a problem to the Americans because it’s also putting a dent in their pockets. It states that because of those cosmetics many people have decreased the level of self-esteem because of those cosmetics.
Beau·ty: a combination of qualities, such as shape, color, or form, that pleases the aesthetic senses, especially the sight. The definition of beauty today, is icommonsurable from the dictionary definition. What if I told you that people were killing themselves trying to please society? Photoshopped images create extremely unrealistic expectations of body image and beauty.
Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, but society decides that (Kong “Plastic Surgery and Lookism in South Korea”). By creating a “utopian society” where beauty is not recognized, Chiang explores how beauty affects the world. For example, when Tamera removes her calliagnosia, she does not instantly feel beautiful yet. It takes her a while to familiarize herself since she’s truly never been able to appreciate beauty before (Chiang 246). Once Tamera figures out she is beautiful, she tries to win back her ex, Garrett, with her looks.
Outer Beauty And Inner Beauty “… And you thought beauty was the outward show-but how you know the truth, my Love- it has always been the inner fire…” said John Geddes in his book called “ A Familiar Rain”. Beauty is one of people’s from all over the world favorite topics to talk about. Most people think that beauty is a combination of good physical qualities, in other words, physical appearance. However, people also think that even a person with the most charming physical appearance is not really attractive if his or her personality is repugnant.
Also, cosmetic procedures have increased by 39% over the past five years (from 2011) with surgical procedures up 17% and nonsurgical procedures up 44%(ASPS statistics). It shows that young women are willing to put themselves in danger because they feel the need to meet society's expectations of beauty. When going into cosmetic surgery, there is a risk of death or side effects that people are aware of, but still undergo the procedure. All because we live in a world where first impressions are made by how we look and thanks to magazines advertisements they set the “ideal” look for us and we all try to reach that look no matter how it
1.0 Introduction 1.1 Background of the Issue This report is written to find out the pros and cons of cosmetic surgery to people as well as how much cosmetic surgery has benefited people both positively and negatively. Cosmetic surgery procedures have been performed back in the early 1800s, which means it has been in existence for centuries as what history has suggested. Besides that, the development of cosmetic surgery states that it started to gain popularity since the 1970s and 1980s. Cosmetic surgery can be defined as the operative procedure as improvement of appearance is the principal purpose (Medical Dictionary for the Dental Professions, 2012).
"Today, hundreds of thousands of aesthetic plastic surgery procedures are conducted each year" (Petechuk, 2014, p. 4). People do not think twice about having a procedure done because they have enough money. People believe that insecurities can be fixed to make themselves feel better. Unfortunately, people all over the world are having surgeries done. Most might not think this is unfortunate, but some do.
The DSM (IV-TR) identifies depressive symptoms as having a depressed mood most of the day, diminished interest or pleasure in all or most activities, significant unintentional weight loss or gain, insomnia or sleeping too much, agitation or psychomotor retardation noticed by others, fatigue or loss of energy, feelings of worthlessness or excessive guilt, diminished ability to think or concentrate, or indecisiveness, recurrent thoughts of death or suicide (Carson. R et al, 2008). The DSM- IV (1994) also states that, culture can influence depressive symptoms e.g. in many Asian countries, depression is often manifested through complaints of weakness, tiredness or imbalance, rather than feelings of guilt, difficulty concentrating etc. This then
All people have reason for what they doing. Nowadays, the problem in people is they didn 't want to listen to explanation they just want to judge and contented for what they see. Taking plastic surgery is not that bad unless you do so. Don 't look only for the negative side of a thing; look also for the positive
The risk factors of negative body image can be applied universally while there are specific aspects that should be taken into consideration in China. Chinese beauty ideals were distinct from Western ones; in China, traditional beauty is related with plump figure for it represents wealth and wellbeing. However, the “modernization”, “industrialization”, “rapid economic transition”, along with the accelerating “westernization” evoke the dramatic shifts in “cultural beliefs and beauty ideals” ( Xie, et al. 2006; Jung and Forbes 2007). According to Luo, Parish and Laumann (2004), females from urban area, coastal south areas and with higher education background have a relatively high body image concern, particularly in terms of body weight and body shape; the findings are associated with