More Than Just Existence;

I find it slightly ethnocentric that whenever Japanese appropriate some aspect of Euro-American body aesthetics, foreigners assume that it reflects their burning desire to become something other than Japanese, but when Americans, for instance, borrow things like nose piercing or dreadlocks from other cultures, it is seen as evidence of their creativeness and tolerance.

Beauty Up: Exploring Contemporary Japanese Body Aesthetics (via homoarigato

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AND THE WIN

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i.e. THIS.

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