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cultural norms and cultures of white supremacy and global beauty standards
12017-05-04T10:39:58-07:00Dwayne Dixon5129acc1d78d02bed532993adeb2cc39f7be6920174822plain2017-05-04T10:42:00-07:00Dwayne Dixon5129acc1d78d02bed532993adeb2cc39f7be6920I appreciate your critique. It is silly to expect a fairly homogeneous nation to have all these consumer options for someone who is ethnically, linguistically, and nationally, an outsider. I would first start by interrogating what it means to "fit in". This seems like the initial problem. Certainly there are problems in the US. Whiteness and slender bodies are highly idealized as we well know. Some of that also travels and circulates through S. Korean beauty culture, undoubtedly. But I side with you--if the beauty standards don't align with your body in a particular place, how could you be surprised if it's not *your* place? I don't want to discount the power of white supremacy here, for sure, and its trace effects on this person. But I also want to think more about local constructions of beauty that serve a biopolitical function of creating commonsensical conceptions of "belonging" through shared images of embodied beauty.
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12017-04-26T18:36:06-07:00Courtney Cho575587c339e838df7e9d1a346e308fc4fa933f29Not Beautiful Enough To Live in Korea?7Dismembering over-broad arguments and assumptions against and about Koreans - and Asians in generalplain2017-05-05T14:16:50-07:00Courtney Cho575587c339e838df7e9d1a346e308fc4fa933f29