Ethnic plastic surgery

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Ethnic plastic surgery, or ethnic modification, refers to the types of

race or ethnicity.[1] Popular procedures which may have an ethnically motivated component are rhinoplasties (nose jobs) and blepharoplasties (double eyelid surgeries).[2]

WASP noses and Playboy breasts. They are caught in the vexed immigrants' dilemma of struggling not only to keep up with the Joneses but to look like them, too."[4]

Ethical considerations

Plastic surgeons Chuma J. Chike-Obi, M.D., Kofi Boahene, M.D., and Anthony E. Brissett, M.D., F.A.C.S. distinguish between motivations of aesthetics and racial transformation for patients of African descent seeking plastic surgery. In their opinion, "Patients whose desired surgical outcomes result in racial transformation should be educated about the potential risks of this objective, and these requests should generally be discouraged."[5]

Feminist scholars have split views on the subject.

Munchhausen syndrome, and labiaplasty. Her basic thesis is that the arguments against the ethical nature of racial transformation (e.g. "it's not possible", "betrayal of group identity", "reinforces oppression", etc.) stand or fall with the ethical arguments related to transsexual change.[6] Cressida Heyes, professor of Philosophy of Gender and Sexuality at the University of Alberta, disagrees with Overall's schema. Heyes feels that racial transformation is fundamentally different from gender transformation since race is also determined by ancestry, personal cultural history and societal definitions. Hence ethical considerations of transracial surgery are different from ethical considerations in transsexual surgery.[7]

In popular culture

In the South Park episode "Mr. Garrison's Fancy New Vagina" Kyle undergoes an ethnic plastic surgery called "negroplasty" to qualify for the basketball team.

In the 2008 movie Tropic Thunder, Kirk Lazarus goes through a controversial surgery to make his skin darker to play an African-American soldier.

See also

References

  1. ^ O'Connor, Maureen; O’Connor, Maureen (2014-07-27). "Is Race Plastic? My Trip Into the 'Ethnic Plastic Surgery' Minefield". The Cut. Retrieved 2023-10-09.
  2. ^ "Cosmetic Surgery Goes Ethnic". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 2019-04-28.
  3. ^ Mann, Denise (21 August 2014). "From the Editor: Ethnic Plastic Surgery: What's in a Name? - Plastic Surgery Practice". Retrieved 2021-06-29.
  4. ^ America's Paint and Body Shop
  5. S2CID 20326026. Archived from the original
    (PDF) on 2018-03-04. Retrieved 2015-06-17.
  6. doi:10.5840/socphiltoday2004203
    . Retrieved 2021-06-29.
  7. S2CID 145740988
    .
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