tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3858342845263470147.post3621890048532309352..comments2023-03-13T18:50:55.435+09:00Comments on Jessi: This film reminds me of my daughterAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07477988332856020205noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3858342845263470147.post-73099905341506879582013-03-29T09:58:19.368+09:002013-03-29T09:58:19.368+09:00Wow! What a great video! Thanks for posting it. I ...Wow! What a great video! Thanks for posting it. I really want to see the finished documentary. Apparently it will be finished sometime in 2013. As a foreigner, I have often wondered about these same things. It seems particularly sad to me that perfectly beautiful young girls(and boys)feel this relentless pressure to conform to one, single, very narrowly defined ideal. There doesn't seem to be enough critical reflection by Koreans on the media's role in creating this perception, as well as, on societies part in this. I think what is needed is social pressure to be formed in the opposite direction: to see young people accepting themselves and loving themselves for who and what they are. Does plastic surgery happen to young people in my country? Yes, it does! But, it only happens in one aspect of our culture (one sub-culture), and it's frowned upon by most South Africans as superficial. I find it really difficult to understand how a mother (like in the documentary)can tell her daughter that she is beautiful only once she has had plastic surgery. Honestly, my emotions when I hear that are extreme. I find it disgusting that a mother would act that way. If that is happening a lot, how can children think of themselves positively? Check out this short video from Arirang TV (of all places!) on the relentless pressure placed on Korean woman to fit an ideal in order to get employed and be eligible for marriage etc: http://thegrandnarrative.com/2010/04/28/korea-cosmetic-surgery/Michael Thoughthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11728809177315666526noreply@blogger.com