I think I'm starting to experience a little bit of culture shock. But its not the Italian culture that's putting me into this phase of shock and disbelief. Its the Korean culture. As I've mentioned before, both of my roommates are from Korea. I guess you could say that they're your typical average Korean girls who live a very Korean lifestyle. But even though I knew that my roommates were going to be Korean before I even came to Italy, I never expected to feel disoriented by the Korean culture. After all, I had grown up with it. My parents were strictly Korean in their ideologies and their way of life. Maybe the generational factor has an influence but I am truly undergoing culture shock.
A couple days back, while have a chat with both of my roommates, we discovered that Melody had undergone plastic surgery to change her mono-lids into the infamously desired double eyelids. The conversation swiftly switched gears to the list of things that both Melody and Sierra wanted to fix under the knife. A nose job, double-eyelid surgery, breast implants, jaw restructuring...the list went on and on. I was very much in shock. Here were two already beautiful girls and they wanted to completely transform their faces to conform to the set ideals of Korean beauty. I asked why. Their response was simply that all of their friends were doing it and they didn't want to be "the ugly friend." I guess my face must have clearly expressed the disturbance I was feeling at having heard this that one of them ventured on to ask me, "You're perfectly content with the way you look?"
To be honest, I know for a fact that I've never felt pretty and I would never describe myself as being pretty. I have a very average face. I don't think anyone has ever felt appalled by looking at my face but I know that my face is far from perfect. I mean, who has a perfect face? But even with all of the imperfections that I may have, I would never get plastic surgery or change my face in any way.
Lets just say that both of my roommates were clearly offset by my being fully satisfied with my looks.
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