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The dominant cultural identity

Hey. Look at what I found hiding behind the couch. It's been there since '96

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-03-26-mn-47285-story.html

Asian Women Rate Western Beauty a Cut Above Their Own : Cosmetic surgery: From Thailand to South Korea to the Philippines, women who can afford it go under the knife to have their eyelids and noses altered. Not doing so crimps careers, they say.

As Thailand embraces fast-food restaurants, blue jeans and Hollywood movies in its zeal to Westernize, its women are having their faces nipped and tucked to fit in. Though many say they are not seeking to look Western, the higher nose bridges and smaller, folded eyelids they are getting are distinctly European.

This type of cosmetic surgery has taken off in much of male-dominated Asia, where beauty is a must for many women who want to get ahead. From South Korea to the Philippines to Malaysia, women who can afford it are going under the knife in hopes of achieving the now-popular European concept of beauty.
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Time waste over?
 
America has become a divided nation where everything is political. The browning of America isn't a good or bad thing depending on your skin colour, why can't it simply be a thing that is happening? Both sides are equally to blame for the politicalization of all issues. But the media shares blame for allowing themselves to be drawn in and used like any other tool of the parties.
 
Oldman aren't you suggesting we substitute one boogieman for another. What's the difference between skin color and information source as thing for hating? Yah there's the benefit of removing physical traits for mental traits. But how long before we find those espousing liberal hate traits are the same as those hating color difference. The problem isn't with the focus the problem is with the hatred.
 
European western thought evolved over a long time from tribal to city state to state to the idea of human rights and govt to pt protect rights. In may armature analyst view that led to creative freedom, innovation, and modern science. Knowledge is power.

Eastern Europe is slipping into despotism and authoritarianism while The Americans, Canadians, and western Europe are traying to push it back.

It is all about culture. Why is tiny Israel a military and economic power in the mid east while the Arabs and Persians willfully stick with self defeating anachronistic forms of government?

Africa is in constant conflict over which group dominates. Tribal. Ethiopia and Sudan.

Here in the USA we do seem to be heading to a flat society. Whether it will work is unknown.

I live on the edge of Chinatown. The Chinese there hang onto their culture with a death grip and will never give up their identity, even generations removed from immigrants.

Maybe dominant cultures exist because there are cultures to begin with. China has a dominant racial culture, I'd have to look up which is the dominant and which is considered underclass.
 
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