Ethnic plastic surgery
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Ethnic plastic surgery or ethnic modification, is plastic surgery intended to change an individual's appearance to look more or less like a particular race or ethnicity.
Rhinoplasty (nose surgery) and blepharoplasty (eyelid surgery) are also popular procedures.
Michael Jackson's plastic surgery has been discussed in the context of ethnic plastic surgery. In her book Venus Envy: A History of Cosmetic Surgery, Elizabeth Haiken devotes a chapter to "The Michael Jackson Factor" presenting "black, Asian and Jewish women who seek 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."
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See also
- Allophilia
- Passing (racial identity)
- Skin whitening
- The Operated Jew
- Racial transformation of Michael Jackson
- Good hair
- Martina Big
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