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[elfs]

Pacific Rim Miss Universe contestants
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A couple of months ago I griped about how the shift to a U.S.-style diet has ruined the Asian porn industry, at least for still photography, because many of the distinctive features associated with Asian women in the 70s and 80s were due to their lower-fat diet. More evidence of that today in the news. I mean, look at these girls, the Pacific Rim contestants vying for the Miss Universe title: other than the shape of their eyes, is there anything to them that doesn't say "I could have grown up in L.A., or Kansas City, or Miami?"

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[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Flip side of that, are these stick-figure girls that grow up in LA and Miaaaaaami and such... no butts at all, and either nothing up top either, or something that they were obviously not endowed with...

And what's with the mode of dress here?? *that's* what looks straight off the rack at MallWart in Peoria... Whatever happened to floral dresses or skirts and tops? sheesh.

[gromm.livejournal.com]

Heh. No. Because plenty of Chinese and Russians and Mongolians and Brazilians grow up in LA and Kansas City and Miami, even if they were born outside America.

It's noteworthy however, that none of these women are especially voluptuous. I would even hazard that they are decidedly not. Miss Thailand there is about the most voluptuous girl present, and that's not saying much.

Now, what you might have meant to say is that they all have very western modes of dress, but that's nothing new, as the fashion world has been very much centered in the west (with occasional eastern fads) for at least a couple of hundred years, and there's no sign that Paris and Milan are going to be removed from that list anytime soon. What's new is that the Chinese are now aspiring to world fashion, instead of being so maddeningly insular.

Is this a good thing? Enh. Exotic dress has gone the way of the dodo, with the exception of counterculture groups like goths and punks.

[funos.livejournal.com]

What are those "distinctive features associated with Asian women in the 70s and 80s"?

[intrepid-reason.livejournal.com]

If you are saying that small breasts are "the distinctive features associated with Asian women in the 70s and 80s - due to their lower-fat diet? I have a number of little asian girlfriends who grew up over seas, think milk is wierd, and so don't drink; therefore, never got the growth hormones I think you're referring to. Their complaint is that they have no ass. Do you really think this is a result of a higher fat diet?

[areitu.livejournal.com]

My family immigrated from Taiwan to the US in late 1988. A few years ago when we went to China, people there thought my sister (16 at the time) was a college student. She and I were the same height as people nearly twice our age.

A disturbing trend among many asian women in the US is an obsession with thinness and/or their obsession with acquiring caucasian features. My sister falls into this trend a bit, since she does her best to protect herself against tanning. I've seen and heard of other Asian girls who have the bump on the middle of their noses removed, an extra fold added to their eyelids.