I wonder, though, East Asians with blonde hair and colored contacts: are they actually trying to permanently alter their looks? Because I consider hair coloring to be fashion, full stop, not at all in the same category as something like plastic surgery. But Asian hair is so politicized—jet-black, straight hair is…

Seriously – when the K-pop girls frame the bottom of their faces with her hands, it's translated as "round face." Uhh…NO. It means exactly the opposite: "V-line chin." My Korean isn't the greatest, but I can't help wonder what else Vice was sloppy about in their
"report."

I don't think it's embarrassment either, I think it's more that Koreans who desire these procedures aren't particularly knowledgeable as to how the current Korean beauty standard was influenced in part (IN PART) by Western ideals (the history of blepharoplasty, etc.), and so they don't really know how to combat…

Does Jezebel ever plan on having an Asian writer (preferably one with transnational experience) address this topic? Since Korean beauty procedures seem to be a regular beat around here, it would be refreshing to hear perspectives that aren't of the "outside-looking-in" quality.

No, he definitely means it in the sense of "I wish I were Caucasian." Definitely.

Never liked that one line that went, "Tell me more, tell me more, did she put up a fight?"

It's so interesting how people with racial dating "preferences" insist on being validated as "not racist," as we are seeing all over this thread. I have NEVER heard anyone successfully defend their exclusion of an entire race based on "natural attraction": it always comes down to some sort of ignorance, either genuine…

Was the French exchange student of Vietnamese descent? Because Nguyen is a Vietnamese surname, full stop. It wasn't "grabbed" from the French. Nguyen is basically the Chang or Smith of Vietnamese surnames - almost half of all Vietnamese have it.

This "news item" has been around for awhile. Kotaku covered it last fall. And it did a better job of contextualizing this incident as the freakshow it is:

Saying that Korean (I can't speak to Japanese) women get plastic surgery because they "want to look like Caucasian girls" isn't an accurate description of their "contemporary reasoning" for getting plastic surgery either. That implies that wanting to look Caucasian is/was the primary motivating factor, whereas the…

Actually, "it all started off with" colonization, American occupation, and an American military doctor performing the first double-eyelid surgery on Korean patients to make them look less sneaky and Oriental. If you want to be precise about it.

Well, that's what I meant when I referred to feeling uneasy about this term entering the mainstream. It's problematic enough that Asians use it amongst themselves. And it's still a reality that most Asian immigrants are socially punished for "FOB"-like qualities and aren't really in a position to be confrontational…

Eddie Huang titled his memoir "Fresh Off the Boat" in the spirit of reclaiming and owning the negatively-perceived "foreign" imagery associated with Asian immigrants—that Asian immigrants are uncouth, loud, non-English-speaking, etc. He's asserting the term FOB to throw all these qualities in the face of mainstream…

It's a totally bizarre proposition the OP is making. Lots of states have giant metropolitan areas with demographics that don't proportionally reflect the rest of the state's population—that's the thing about cities, they attract diversity. It's one thing to wonder about the statistics of NYS outside of NYC, but…

"Ron Mexico"? I just googled it - that's "Michael Vick's alias with a woman who later sued him for giving her herpes."

I don't know if he is a troll or not, or if the picture is real or not, but it is a little weird that a dedicated father/husband passionately in love with family life would use Anthony Weiner's dick pic alias as his handle.

You know, it's entirely possible to celebrate the transformative joy that your child has brought into your life without shitting on other human beings and making presumptuous, uninformed assessments of their lives. It's not difficult. At all.

"The comments began right from the start," Kelley-Wagner says. "We would be shopping, and cashiers or store clerks would say things like, 'How much did she cost?' or 'You could have bought a car for what it probably cost to adopt her.' I would answer, 'Are you interested in adoption?' If they said no, I'd say, 'Why…

You seem to be arguing that questions like "how much did she cost" and "why didn't her REAL family want her" are reasonable subjects of curiosity in conversations about adoption, but there is NO appropriate scenario where these questions should be posed to a child ("at a party or at a park," WTF does it matter?…

I have no idea why you are defending adults talking to each other about the mechanics of adoption in a private conversation when this story is about adults making inappropriate, insulting comments to adopted children. These are completely different situations, and your questions re: "how did you get this child" aren't…