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Angry Little Asian Girl is an American animated cartoon created by Lela Lee. Lee created an initial series of animations in the late 1990s, and worked with the Asian American channel Mnet for a 12-episode season released in 2014. The series focuses on Kim, a grade-school Korean American who unleashes her anger on injustices.
The South Korean girl group Girls' Generation collaborated with Dior in 2011 to promote their skin lightening cream, targeted consumers influenced by the Korean Wave and potentially increasing their presence in the East Asian cosmetics markets. [4] Bihaku products are highly popular among mature women.
African, South Asian and Australo-Melanesian populations also carry derived alleles for dark skin pigmentation that are not found in Europeans or East Asians. [32] Huang et al. (2021) found the existence of "selective pressure on light pigmentation in the ancestral population of Europeans and East Asians", prior to their divergence from each other.
Double eyelids are unconditionally considered beautiful in East Asian society. [13] The double eyelid is a crease in the small flap of skin that covers the eye. It has been estimated that 17–32% of Chinese women lack this upper eyelid crease, giving them a monolid appearance. [14] However, this is not ideal when it comes to Chinese beauty.
A study from 2008 determined that 20 percent of young Korean girls have undergone cosmetic surgery. This is significantly above the average rate in other countries. [3] A recent survey from Gallup Korea in 2015 determined that approximately one-third of South Korean women between 19 and 29 have claimed to have had plastic surgery.
In an interview in the January/February 2006 edition of Blender magazine, Cho called Stefani's Harajuku Girls a minstrel show that reinforces ethnic stereotypes of Asian women. [10] Writer Mihi Ahn of Salon.com said of Stefani's Harajuku Girls: "Stefani has taken the idea of Japanese street fashion and turned these women into modern-day geisha ...
"Brown" has been used as a term in popular culture for Americans, some South Asian Americans, Middle Eastern Americans, Native Americans, and Latino Americans either as a pejorative term or sometimes for self-identification, as with brown identity.
During the opening of Japan to the West in the Meiji Restoration, Japanese physician M. Mikamo was the first surgeon to publish a technique for East Asian blepharoplasty, to westernise the Asian eyelid. [17] The submissive femininity that was highly valued before was replaced by a new concept of liberated women.