Modern Asian Internalize racism

elen can you tell us uh what kind of hair you have and what color eyes you have I have black hair and black eyes Okay and then silver um what color hair does she have long hair just like Goldie okay um so does goldie have better hair than you or is the black

hair that you have better than Goldies black hair is kind of good but more [Music] better what would you rather have if you had the choice what would you have would you have black hair or blonde hair blonde hair and then what would you rather have black eyes or blue eyes blue eyes blue

eyes [Music] eyelid surgery was introduced in the 1950s after the Korean War when women wanted to look more Caucasian to impress American GIS critics of the surgery say Asian women who alter their eyelids are turning their back on their ethnic identity [Music] there are all kinds of cosmetic surgeries but we've just heard about

something that frankly took a lot of us by surprise millions of Asian women are making the startling decision to permanently alter the shape of their eyes through plastic surgery what drives so many of these women to make this increasingly popular and controversial decision take a look as aena show follows one woman's through the process

and right into the operating room to find out why and exactly how it's done yeah that's not Annie Chang is 22 and beautiful she doesn't think so yet do you think you're pretty not badl looking I wouldn't say like really pretty because my standard is um pretty should be um having big eyes Annie's features are typically

Asian her eyelids are very small almost nonex IST and that makes her eyes look small but all of that is about to change and that's very unique to Asians soon she'll undergo surgery to make the folds or creases in her eyes bigger to create what's known in the Asian Community as double eyelids in general I think double