10-24-2004, 12:55 PM
Well 200 ppl out of goodness knows how many chinese ppl, let alone Asians is not THAT alarming. I don't think the leg surgery will ever rival the popularity of the eyelid surgery. It sounds excruciating just reading about it. 0_o I don't think that Emma did it to get a job, it was for her own aesthetic reasons. If people can afford all that money for the surgery and all the money needed to support themselves when they are bed bound then they can't be that desperate for a job. Of course, such policies are plain wrong in the first place. 
I think it is different from footbinding though. Footbinding pretty much enslaved women due to lack of mobility but leg lengthening only restricts them in the short term when they are bed bound.
Pale skin has long been held as a beauty standard in chinese history so i wouldn't say it is necessarily a western trend. Ppl with pale skin want tans and ppl with darker skins want pale skin... grass is always greener on the other side i guess.
I think it is different from footbinding though. Footbinding pretty much enslaved women due to lack of mobility but leg lengthening only restricts them in the short term when they are bed bound.
Pale skin has long been held as a beauty standard in chinese history so i wouldn't say it is necessarily a western trend. Ppl with pale skin want tans and ppl with darker skins want pale skin... grass is always greener on the other side i guess.