Asians are famous for their love of plastic surgery, and the whole looks almost the same: straight nose, big eyes and V-shaped face. ...
Everyone with a single eyelid in front of the screen should not deny that they even had the impulse to cut their double eyelids instantly. Today we will talk about why Asians love plastic surgery.
To put it bluntly, the beauty you want should be "average"
You may say that this is an era of looking at faces, and people with good faces will have a smoother life and love career. Yes, so what determines the standard of a good face?
Judith H. Langlois1991,a professor of developmental psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, USA, conducted an experiment on children aged 2-3 months and 6-8 months, and put two facial photos judged by adults as beautiful and ugly respectively in front of their eyes. Studies have found that babies stare at photos that adults think are beautiful for a long time. This study shows that human discrimination of beauty and ugliness of faces may be an innate mechanism. Some later studies show that people have a high degree of consistency in the aesthetics of faces, and even individuals with different ethnic and cultural backgrounds have cross-cultural characteristics when judging the attractiveness of faces.
Since there is a consistent standard, the methodology will be easy to handle, and it will be adjusted according to the standard. What does it look like after quantification according to this standard?
Scientists found that the average face is a way for human beings to seek aesthetic paradigm-1990, researchers at the University of Texas in the United States obtained synthetic faces through computer technology and put forward the "average face hypothesis". This hypothesis holds that the "average face" obtained by synthesizing faces with various appearance differences is more attractive than the original face. Experiments by other scientific teams have reached a similar conclusion-most people think that being close to the average face will make the face more beautiful.
You may not have noticed at all that the faces that are usually exclaimed as "beautiful" are probably ordinary faces. At best, they are attractive in themselves, not the "amazing nature" you described.
Every one of us has to see different faces every day since birth. The brain can't foolishly integrate every part of every face and compare which one is the most beautiful. When exposed to so many faces, the brain usually calculates the information of various faces three times, five times and two times, and finally "Duang" calculates an average face, and then tells you that the table is tangled, which is the most beautiful thing you deserve.
Li Chengzhe, a professor of plastic surgery in inje university, South Korea, published a paper in Cosmetic Plastic Surgery, a publication of the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ISAPS), on 20/0/0, and released five average faces composed of photos of many of the most beautiful female artists in the world. (Black 13, white 16, China 20, Japanese 14, Korean 19. )
Li Chengzhe believes that the most attractive faces should be ordinary faces attractive enough, not ordinary faces of the public. In other words, a beautiful face may really be an ordinary face, but an ordinary face is not necessarily beautiful. Want beauty, or want the whole.
Looks a little alike? You see, even across races, people's aesthetics are really * * *.
Do you think the current plastic surgery model also tends to these average faces? Therefore, people who have plastic surgery every day don't even realize that plastic surgery is smoothing out their own characteristics, in order to become an "average face" that can get unanimous praise. This is why some people complain that all beautiful women look alike, and the more they look, the less they feel.
The American doctor opened the Korean favorite double eyelids with a knife. Here you are!
Under the tide of globalization, what will the consistent aesthetic standards become?
British photojournalist Zed? Zed Nelson spent five years visiting 17 countries to see how people from different countries pursue external beauty. As a result, he found that the aesthetic standards all over the world seem to be stipulated, and they all act according to the aesthetic standards of western Caucasians-straight hair products are popular in Africa, South Americans have plastic surgery like Barbie dolls, and Japanese lose weight through anorexia. ...
What rhythm is this? You know, just over 100 years ago, westerners were called "big noses" with contempt, and even earlier ancient books were recorded as "heterogeneous". In addition to the economic and cultural advantages, the aesthetic value of westerners finally overcame our psychological defense line, which may be because the increase of cross-cultural contact has reduced people's prejudice against foreign groups and reduced the preconceived hints of local culture in aesthetic formation. Studies at home and abroad show that cross-cultural contact does improve the aesthetic evaluation of another group.
Due to the great racial differences between the East and the West, it is difficult to reconcile these two aesthetics. Nancy, a psychologist at Harvard Medical School? Aitkov once said: "With the help of movies, fashion magazines and the Internet, western popular aesthetic standards have swept the whole world, especially in Asia. The aesthetic communication between East and West seems to be one-dimensional. When we mention the word beauty, we often think of western men and women with blond hair and fair skin. "
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To see how western aesthetic standards affect the correct direction of cosmetic surgery in our thinking, we have to start from South Korea, our master in this field.
In the 1950s, the Korean War (1950- 1953) left South Korea in chaos. At that time, there was no cosmetic surgery in Korea, and Koreans were basically monocular. 1954 American plastic surgeon Ralph? Mi Leide came to South Korea with the US Marine Corps stationed in South Korea to help treat Koreans disfigured by accidents such as car accidents and burns.
This doctor is very interesting. He helps people to the end. When your face is disfigured, I will restore your appearance and let you go up a storey still higher-give you a knife and double eyelids. You're welcome. This is the first Korean case to open double eyelid surgery.
Mi Leide said that he wanted to help Asians better integrate into the international economic arena by creating a more westernized face. "Asian eyelids give people a negative impression, symbolizing the indifference and restraint of eastern culture towards everything," he later wrote in the American Journal of Ophthalmology.
The operation of cutting double eyelids quickly became popular. The first customers were Korean prostitutes, hoping to attract the attention of American soldiers. 196 1 year, the first cosmetic surgery clinic in Korea opened. Today, double eyelid opening is still the most popular cosmetic surgery in Korea, and rhinoplasty ranks second.
Doctor, you are really playing a big game of chess.
△ Advertising photos of cosmetic surgery in the11960s that caused a topic on the Korean Internet.
Westerner: The awl face is not ours, don't blame me!
In this wave, there are also some problems-stubborn resistance to one's own racial characteristics is another problem that can be solved by smoothing one's own characteristics "average face".
American scholar Eugenia? Dr. Gao once put forward the phenomenon of "self-racial prejudice". Her research paper "Medicalization of Racial Characteristics" focuses on how Asian Americans view themselves and how they are influenced by cultural perspectives. She believes that under the observation of western culture, the racial characteristics of Asian nations often become negative characteristics, and women are likely to make changes through surgery.
Double eyelids are better than single eyelids, high nose is better than round nose, and phoenix eye is so strange. ...
Interestingly, however, the "V-shaped face" of the current cosmetic trend does not meet the aesthetic standards of Europeans and Americans. We see that many white stars have wide chins, but Asian stars have small chins. It is said that this is caused by the developed entertainment industry in Korea. Artists often face the camera, and the camera tends to enlarge their faces, so the stars have to change their faces, becoming smaller, sharper and smaller ... This wind has affected the East Asian circle; Some people also say that sharpening the chin is to change the national characteristics of Koreans themselves and change the wide chin that makes them look heavy and dull.
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Asian: So am I beautiful or not?
But in fact? Are Europeans and Americans as happy as they are to see so many Asians?
As for the appearance of Asians, in the past, I have to say that I didn't get much praise from westerners, but I was more ridiculed and belittled, which initially prompted many Asian Americans mentioned above to destroy their racial characteristics and become the same faces as the western public.
However, the rise of Asia in economy, politics and culture, as well as the increase of cross-cultural contacts, have changed Westerners' appreciation of Asians. If an Asian girl appears in front of an elderly westerner, he may automatically label the Asian girl as "poverty" and "war", which will automatically reduce the beauty of the girl in his heart; But if you are a young westerner, labels such as "sexy" and "beautiful" can still be associated with Asian girls.
After accepting the unique characteristics of Asians, western society also has an aesthetic view of Asian women. This is why you will see more and more movie stars, models and celebrities with typical Asian looks favored by European and American fashion circles and reported by the media.
△ Model Lv Yan
Yes, while women in China are still trying to get closer to "westernization", real foreigners begin to appreciate the exotic customs of Asian women.
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