An almost 17-year old New York Times article.

An aware (we presume) surgeon.

With over fifteen years experience devoted to the surgical concerns of our ethnic patients, we are dedicated to offering cosmetic surgery procedures that preserve each patient’s ethnic identity. We pride ourselves on educating our ethnic patients on the latest surgical techniques available and other plastic surgery information pertaining specifically to them and their needs.

I am seeing some potentially interesting and possibly problematic intersections with race, beauty, class, wealth, and cultural expectations here.

Update: Thinking about this a little more, I wonder how they’d keep a creepy stalker type from getting ethnically-oriented cosmetic fixes that they didn’t actually belong to…?

Discuss!

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