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Re: Korea plastic surgery ad 2

sileena jad — Sat, 21 Dec 2013 00:53:22 -0000

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Re: An Ugly Reflection: Plastic Surgery In Korea (Guest Blog)

Souxie — Fri, 08 Nov 2013 18:51:06 -0000

Ummm... Unfortunately, you are ignorant as well. I am half Korean and White and most of my 100% Asian friends wish they had my Westernized eyes, nose, and my heart-shaped face. They would tell me "I wish I were half white!". In fact, when they advertize the eye surgery, it's for "Western Eyes". So yes, they are trying to be a hybrid of Caucasian and Asian.

Re: An Ugly Reflection: Plastic Surgery In Korea (Guest Blog)

bang2tang — Fri, 25 Oct 2013 05:32:49 -0000

"You need to find a man that loves you the way you are"

sorry but this line, sounds cheesy to me (although it's true), or maybe i'm just a person with shallow mind.

Re: Why Aren’t Japanese Men Dating?

Josh — Sat, 28 Sep 2013 06:05:39 -0000

STOP SAYING GAIJING it's GAIJIN srsly

Re: An Ugly Reflection: Plastic Surgery In Korea (Guest Blog)

Ruby — Tue, 10 Sep 2013 18:22:58 -0000

Korea is not the only one with beauty standards. In India, all people want is white skin, because they think black skin is dirty. I have read in a blog somewhere stating the only reason why Indians are importing white females from different countries is to act in their movies. While there are so many beautiful Indians girls in India ready to jump in the show biz. Even my mom perks me about my skin color, telling me to use whitening cream for my face. But after reading that blog, I have realized that my skin color is more beautiful than white. Today when I saw my face I thought I should get plastic surgery, then I thought I must be crazy, because I'm beautiful the way I am. And if no guy likes me for my face, then f*** him there is plenty of fish in the sea. ;)

Re: Shooting Geisha In Kyoto with Canon 5D Mark III

Dee — Thu, 22 Aug 2013 08:18:33 -0000

gorgeous shots of the geisha's Fidel; not to mention the colors! Happy that you're posting again.

Re: Shooting Geisha In Kyoto with Canon 5D Mark III

Andrea Sherrodd — Wed, 21 Aug 2013 14:07:35 -0000

Beautiful! Glad you're posting again :)

Re: Shooting Geisha In Kyoto with Canon 5D Mark III

Abby — Wed, 21 Aug 2013 10:06:29 -0000

Gorgeous colors!! I love how you played with the focus...

Re: Shooting Geisha In Kyoto with Canon 5D Mark III

Chris — Wed, 21 Aug 2013 09:46:26 -0000

Epic shots bro - would love to come stalk some geisha with you!

Re: I’m not Obama, Lil Wayne, Kanye West or Kobe

Fidel — Wed, 21 Aug 2013 09:22:34 -0000

Great comment La Morenaza. Thank you for sharing your experience and dropping some knowledge!

Re: I’m not Obama, Lil Wayne, Kanye West or Kobe

La Morenaza — Wed, 24 Jul 2013 00:34:39 -0000

Great article, Mr.-I hope no relation to Kevin-Hart or else you'll soon have another stereotype to be compared to! I was Serena Williams or a young Celia Cruz in Colombia! I'll never forget the man who thought that I was Serena Williams participating in a local 11K race against landmines in Colombia's coca fields. We don't look alike! Perhaps my complexion, curly hair style, and body type are reminiscent of Serena but facially we look nothing alike!!!

It wasn't until I traveled to Costa Rica for the first time for study abroad that I found out that there are black people that speak Spanish, period due to U.S. stereotypes about Latinos. I was often thought of to be from the country I was visiting or living in and others like it with a significant black population including Cuba, Puerto Rico, Panama, Colombia, and Dominican Republic.

From my experiences, the racism is there in Latin America but it seems to pale in comparison to the United States. I had to educate a few ignorant people in Costa Rica that not all black people are good at sports.

Some countries still do blackface but it is usually tied in with Carnival costumes.

Like you mentioned a lot of countries have unrealistic stereotypes about what an American looks like since they see so few of us African Americans traveling abroad. They think to be American is to be blonde with blue eyes... It'd be nice to change this stereotype, for real.

Black was revered as beautiful and respected in many parts of Colombia I traveled to during my recently ended two year stint as a US government official posted there. Next up is Dominican Republic! I have a lot to do there as Black awareness fueled by hate for neighboring and proud Haiti is still buried in a sea of pride for Spanish and Indian roots instead. In Colombia, many black people were proud of their heritage and saw Obama as their President too! For me, it was fun to have "family" away from home. Their struggles were similar to blacks elsewhere though usually the worst of circumstances and often ignored by the government as far as access to government services was concerned.

Re: An Ugly Reflection: Plastic Surgery In Korea (Guest Blog)

Chinese — Wed, 17 Jul 2013 20:11:40 -0000

I'm a Chinese and I've never seen any plastic vanity in Beijing as I walked around the city for 10 years. I'm sure there're some out there, but definitely NOT everywhere. Getting a plastic surgery, even in big cities like Beijing, is still a hush-hush thing to tell others. And I assume that you should know the fact that Chinese is vary from the North to the South, as well as from the East to the West. As opposed to Korean, who have much more concentrated race root(I don't know if this is the correct way to say) from their ancestors, Chinese are actually very hard to be defined into one or two typical "Chinese looking". Almost all my friends still think that plastic surgery is dangerous and my family also believe that the surgery will not do any good to me when I get older if I ever wanted to do so.

Re: Five Movies That Inspired Me To Travel

101thingstodobeforeyoudie — Thu, 04 Jul 2013 15:37:01 -0000

I had never even heard of Mahogany; I'll have to check it out. Kinda glad to see I'm not the only one neglecting the blogging world (although I obviously keep up with you on Facebook). Hope all is well!

Re: The Children That the Gods Forgot: Phnom Penh’s Street Children

Cambodia — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 14:37:01 -0000

I came here to Phnom Penh a year ago and had much the same impressions as you did with these kids. I made friends with them and now I'm putting one of them through school. Just to clarify a few things. There really are NOT thousands of them. It's the few same kids. I know, because I know a bunch of them, and see them every day. They are only active in the main tourist areas and not elsewhere in the city. I would estimate there's about 200-300 such kids in Phnom Penh. Some of them work all the time 7 days a week, others occasionally. They do not have sex with tourists. That is not true. They have families who live in desperate poverty and this is the only way for the family to survive. The one I am supporting has 5 little siblings to feed. It is an incredible shame that UNICEF and other NGO's turn a blind eye to this, when it would be so easy to help these handful of desperate poor children who have such a screwed up childhood. I hope someone at UNICEF reads this. Shame on you for scaremongering instead of helping these little kids have a childhood.

Re: An Ugly Reflection: Plastic Surgery In Korea (Guest Blog)

Vanessa — Mon, 20 May 2013 23:16:07 -0000

Great article! Plastic surgery is definitely hard to pinpoint as "good" or "bad" here in Korea. From a young age, girls (and boys) are told what is beauty, and if they look in the mirror and don't see that, it's culturally acceptable to change yourself. There's baby steps to get to surgery. For example, some of my co-workers have eyelash implants (like 2-week long fake eyelashes). And when I asked them about it, they said it's just like mascara, just a little more long-term. In their eyes (har-har), people make themselves look more beautiful through makeup and clothing, so what's the difference in changing your actual body. I wouldn't do it myself, but then again, I've never been told, "Small faces and big eyes is beautiful, but you don't have it."

Re: An Ugly Reflection: Plastic Surgery In Korea (Guest Blog)

Oleander — Fri, 17 May 2013 11:55:33 -0000

Holy shit- comparing either eyelid surgery or circumcision to amputating the clitoris is incredibly offensive and inaccurate. For the record, I am against ANY unnecessary surgery on children, and would never circumcise a son despite being of Jewish heritage, because I think children are entitled to bodily autonomy. But one of these things is clearly unlike the others.

Re: Before I Say ‘Sayonara:’ Best Memories of Japan

Social Media Marketing, Market — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 07:10:05 -0000

wow!! amazing place..Thanks so much for helping to promote this event! We’re
looking forward to it being a lot of fun. Hope to see you there!

Re: Five Movies That Inspired Me To Travel

Social Media Marketing, Market — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 07:08:59 -0000

Nice article. Good to see this…

Thank You Very Much for posting this.. :-)

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Re: Why Aren’t Japanese Men Dating?

chorochoroshitai — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 08:04:23 -0000

The answer is simple.Because Japanese girls in Tokyo are rich.They are daughters of rich families.They are rich because they live around Tokyo.If they live in the independent houses which are more likely than flats they must be millonaires,An independent house is from half a million.The average household's cash-saving in bank account is around half a million plus insurance and stocks and bonds.How does a millionaire behave when his daughter has a boyfriend?If he is an American he does not blame because he believes an American is richer than him.If he is not so rich he doesn't care. Because he can be rich in the country affordable for chance and makes efforts to be so.Some Japanese men are not ready to meet girl's parents.

Re: Why Aren’t Japanese Men Dating?

Ultima-X — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 02:11:21 -0000

Well what if they choose not to date, because you know, they actually have A CHOICE OF THEIR OWN. What will you say then?

Re: An Ugly Reflection: Plastic Surgery In Korea (Guest Blog)

Andrew — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 02:18:54 -0000

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Re: An Ugly Reflection: Plastic Surgery In Korea (Guest Blog)

Marc Bryan — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 16:56:39 -0000

"Confidence is key", "Learn to love yourself" - these are some of the lessons my mother taught me when I was a kid, and up until now, I take these sayings to heart. Honestly, I don't see anything wrong with plastic surgery unless something went wrong. But other than that, I'm okay with it. I'm not saying that I'll be doing it anytime soon or at all. All I'm saying is, people are getting these plastic surgeries for them to feel good about themselves, and who are we to stop them or even mock them? If consequences will happen, then they are the ones who'll suffer, and perhaps, they already know this. If this is there way for them to love themselves, then why are we judging them, right? The only thing that bothers me is their vanity and how meticulous they can get with regards to their look.
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Re: An Ugly Reflection: Plastic Surgery In Korea (Guest Blog)

Marc Bryan — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 14:56:31 -0000

Re: Dedicated To the One I Love

Donna Mason — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 22:13:50 -0000

Fidel this is so beautiful. I am so proud of you. I know both of your parents were just as proud. Cookie was an amazing woman and I know she is smiling from heaven. Both you and Evita are a remarkable reflection of her and Cam. I am so grateful that you are carrying on in her absence. You have a lot to give the world.

Re: Dedicated To the One I Love

Agness — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 19:38:45 -0000

We are so sorry to hear that. Our prayers go to you and your whole family. Very touching post!