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⌈ Secret Post #6460 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

This actually is something that has made me want to look into the recent history (19th and 20th centuries) of east Asian/South East Asian culture.

The obsession with whiteness and beauty standards that lean very heavily towards whiteness has always been something I couldn't quite put into words that makes me uneasy.
Because I have always been met with responses along the lines of "that is just the beauty standards in Asia, Asians are very beauty/visual obsessed".

Yeah, but why? These customs and preferences stem from somewhere and the "just cos" excuse never was enough for me.

Hearing about how a white (American I believe) doctor went into South Korea to tell Korean citizens "get plastic surgery to look more white, therefore we western white saviors can tell you're the good Asians", and then the obsession with eugenics the Japanese government embraced when in allegiance with the Nazis really shone a light on a missing piece of Asian history to me.
I grew up in the US and my family didn't have a family back in the mother land for me to be able to connect to my family's place of origin. I feel very uneducated in this area and it seems like something that wants to be covered/ignored by the masses at large.

I think I just want to conclude this up with: I think we need to look deeper into Western society's early-mid 20th century lasting effects on Asian cultures, especially the less good aspects of our past.
We need to bring them into light, evaluate and critique what the evolution and results have been due to the insidious nature of eugenics and ascending to "whiteness".
We can't keep sweeping it under the rug as a "cultural norm" thing.

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SA:
Not to say I think Naruto is facism is the authorial intent or that Asain cultures are bad/racist sympathizers.
I just mean to say, we to call into question why we hold onto some beliefs and look deeper into our past as a collective whole, even if it means having to face some really dark and fucked up truths.