week 1 blog post
- In the article Letter to My Sister, that written by Lisa Park argues that it is hard for Asian American female to fit in the Americans beauty. In the letter, a sister wrote to her older sister who commits suicide because she did so many plastic surgeries until it destroys her face. The author includes emotional distress that her sister had and describe the action when her sister dies. The older sister tried to fit into the American beauty and education. she got pressure from her friend and family to look good and to be a good student in school. Her younger sister was so mad at the society that causes her older sister to commit suicide.
- she said that “it is making me mad knowing the truth of this culture, which is obvious and yet so strategically dissimulated in every day that it becomes invisible, and nothing is left but the violence that results from its disappearance” (Park 67). This means that the truth behind all of the beautiful culture of American is crucial to other people from different ethnic group to adapt. No one notices it, but the damage is still there. it still harms those who try to fit in.
- throughout the article, she mentions the word “violence” so many time. she uses this word as a verb to describe the damage that the society has on Asian Americans both physically and emotionally. Sooner or later, it becomes the norms that Asian Americans have to go through.
- I think that doing plastic surgery to try to fit in American look is not only occur in America. Plastic surgery is very famous today especially in Korean and Chinese. They do plastic surgery to look like their model or to get into an actress. Some people who have a lot of money would spend a good amount of money on surgery, but for those who don’t will go to cheap plastic surgery clinic. This effect their health and body later on.
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