Beauty has always been painful. My great-grandmother had bound feet, and that's probably A LOT WORSE than any kind of surgery one has in modern society. The ideal look at my great-grandmother's time was to have impossibly small feet (due to foot binding), fair skin and be a little bit full-figured). Things…

@AmosTrue: I have no idea the extent of her relationship, but they did talk - I mean, my mom talks about how they visited each other when she was little - my great-grandmother DID do something that most women from her time didn't, though...she smoked (for some reason, my grandmother DID NOT smoke!). I am also pretty…

My grandmother was considered the epitome of the "modern Chinese girl" back in her day (late 1930s Macau). She finished high school, spoke a "smattering" of English, danced, knew how to swim and DATED. Compare that to her mom, who had bound feet, an arranged marriage and could barely read Chinese (let alone English)…

The only Chinese guys I ever considered were ones who were not only extremely "jook sing," (westernized people of Chinese descent) but their parents were not so "old culture." Many old culture parents have very high expectations of prospective Chinese daughters in law, and anyone who is isn't too familiar with "the…

@voteforme: It's still a different culture. I think plenty of Chinese grandparents would still freak out at their grandchildren marrying Japanese, even though the war ended more than 60 years ago.

@amake616: I don't know. For many jobs, professional designations are valued more than your undergraduate designation. My cousin has a degree in hotel management (or something like that) but now works in financial services. After his degree, he got his CFA, got a job in finance and never looked back.

So when's the cookie vs. donut contest?

@cowboydan: Whoa......how could this happen? I mean, did you guys not realize it fell off?

@Halfmad also known as MaxAgron: OK, fine. In a non-shape issue. :)

Do you think they're going to ever say that someone like Kristin Chenoweth is too short to be in Vogue?

@Talaya: Yes, many more senior women or women who run their own businesses take less time off and split it with their husbands. My doctor, for example, took like six months off with each of her kids. A friend of mine is also a doctor and took nine (and that's only because she didn't have a practice - I think she…

I don't know why, but Hugh Grant singing "Why Can't the English" just seems a tad off. Who is playing Freddie? What about Pickering?

@Talaya: Yes, but even in said rich countries with generous maternity leaves, women are still having difficulty breaking the glass ceiling. Women get up to a year off in Canada (though if she'll take less time off if she splits with her partner), but they're only guaranteed a job of the equivalent level when they…

When I was little, my grandmother would always lecture me on Why A Good Chinese Girl Shouldn't Marry a Non-Chinese Boy (usually a Non-Chinese Boy meant a White Boy - never a Different Asian Culture, Black, Aboriginal or Hispanic Boy). She would then cite Puccini's Madame Butterfly. It's to the point that I knew the…

Maybe things were different for baby boomers, but I'm not sure if I'd want to date/marry a guy I knew since before I was born.

@deeemer: Doesn't it depend on the province?

I didn't think South Korea would have high maternal mortality issues. There are many more cases than in, say, Japan (where it's like 1 in 11,000). I thought healthcare was excellent.

@CatGaffney: I think this is only the second time in recent years where TO is actually TO. The other time was that movie with Eva Longoria...In any case, yes, I'm looking forward to it. :)

Never mind

@forherwealth: Ahhh, I see what you mean. I actually asked why South Asians are grouped together, while other ethnicities weren't once, but they didn't have a straight answer - only things might change in upcoming censuses.