'The Western beauty standard has
permeated across virtually all
international beauty markets and with
frighteningly effective apparatus of disseminating
cultural imperialism through advertisements, pop
stars and Hollywood it comes as no surprise that
'Western' means beautiful in more places than not'
(Ahmed, 2013)
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With Eastern music tastes,
fashions and physical appearances becoming increasingly westernized particularly in
South Korea as this article has
depicted, I have begun to question how much further this cultural merging trend will go
before we begin to lose the
factors that make our world
culturally diverse. Plastic
surgery was originally used to
repair human features
disfigured by disease or
accidents, now it is widely used
for aesthetic reasons to
transform unwanted features
into those desired by the world
all over. Will the future
generations slowly nip and tuck
themselves to the extent where
we begin to become physical
clones of each other as seen
in Miss Korea 2013?
This introduces the question,
with ever advancing
technologies particularly within
South Korea, how long will it
be before cloning itself is used
in plastic surgery? There is already progress into using
Therapeutic Cloning to
reproduce single organs for
transplant operations, so will
we soon be able to clone individual features? DNA cloning is
being developed which
enables specific desired features to be selected for the
controversial ‘designer babies’,
could we soon be able to clone
our youthful faces to be later
implemented when everything
starts ‘heading south’?
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